The Imprisoned Guest Quotes

“the staff should work with each child to achieve “a mutually recognized mutual understanding, or a mutually recognized interiority to a same world.” To arrive at this understanding—this “intersubjectivity”—staff members should try to enter and inhabit their patients’ kinesthetically experienced reality, a reality that Goode characterizes as “thin,” immediate, unpredictable, and therefore dangerous.27”
― Elisabeth Gitter, The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl