Dan Tomasulo

American Snake Pit (eBook, ePUB)

Hope, Grit, And Resilience in the Wake of Willowbrook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"We have a situation that borders on a snake pit."

- Robert F. Kennedy

In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual disabilities closed its doors for good.

Flat broke and almost finished with graduate school, Dan Tomasulo -- now a core faculty member at Columbia University's Spirituality Mind Body Institute -- was hired to relocate Willowbrook's most severely disabled inhabitants into a groundbreaking community-based group home.

American Snake Pit is the story of the disregarded souls who ended up in Tomasulo's care; of the eccentric, resilient staff who helped make such a momentous success possible; and, most of all, of one man's persistent struggle to give voices to those who could not advocate for themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stillhouse Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781945233036
• Artikelnr.: 53471860

Autorenporträt

Dan Tomasulo, PhD, is author of the popular self-help guide, Learned Hopefulness, hailed as ''the perfect recipe for fulfillment, joy, peace, and expansion of awareness'' by Deepak Chopra. He is core faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI) at Teachers College, Columbia University; and was honored by Sharecare as one of the top ten online influencers on the issue of depression. He holds a PhD in psychology, an MFA in writing, and a master of applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. A highly sought-after international speaker on topics relating to applied positive psychology, he authors the popular blog, The Healing Crowd, for Psychology Today. His award-winning memoir, American Snake Pit, was released in 2018.Lisa Miller, PhD, is professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute-the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology. She is author of The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child.