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Loving Mr. Spock: Understanding an Aloof Lover: Could It Be Asperger's? | 
| Author: Barbara Jacobs
Publisher: Future Horizons
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1932565205
Dewey Decimal Number: 152
EAN: 9781932565201
ASIN: 1932565205
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Loving Mr Spock is easy when you speak the language! July 5, 2008
Relationship Coach (New Zealand)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This fantastic very informative read was well written and referenced. There are a number of very useful assessment tools in this book and a vast amount of very helpful information for those Aspies without a formal diagnosis (my partner being one of them). An essential guide and support for any one in a relationship with someone who has Asperger's Syndrome traits.
Heartfelt and very real book on Aspergers January 4, 2007
Justine O. Calverley (Kailua-Kona, HI USA)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book was brilliant in it's clearness right from the start on Aspergers and the way it manifests in people. Right from the beginning - I found myself going ... yes, that's my ex, and that, and that. Having someone else so clearly identify things was amazing. It is written from the perspective of someone who fell in love with someone with Aspergers and the things that happened. It helped me enormously understand 3 of my ex's who are on different levels with Aspergers. And 2 of whom I suspected. But my last one I was deeply baffled by for a long time until I had an inkling about Aspergers.
Like the writer of this book. I am also involved in psychology. But found it just baffling at times WHAT was actually going on. Things didn't fit together. I spent a long time puzzling over various things that just didn't gel on some level with my last man. 'One of these things does not go with the other'. A kind and caring man in many ways which yes, was one of the big attractions to him in the first place as others have also noted.
But when faced with me standing there with tears streaming down my cheeks. Told me to 'have a nice day'. In retrospect - I can see he knew he needed to say something 'nice' to make me feel better. So came up with a phrase that in his mind went with saying something nice. Totally inappropriate and yet funny in retrospect. But utterly unbelievable at the time it happened. Even when I said. I am standing here with tears streaming down my cheeks. Do you think I'm going to have a nice day? The confusion was very evident. It just didn't all go together for him. He'd been saying something he knew was 'nice'. Why didn't that work? Why did I have a problem with that?
This book I read cover to cover in one sitting. It covers so many things about Aspergers and from a non-clinical but still very informative viewpoint. I understood my whole relationship with my ex from start to finish with this book. It all just fell into place. A truly amazing book that is told with love I feel. Thank you.
Cracking insights into a misunderstood world. June 13, 2005
S. Hebbron (Leicester UK)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Like the book "Curious Incident", this text explores the nature of relationships with Asperger Syndrome "differently wired", people, as Jacobs describes them. In this book the relationship is real and the Authors own love affair with an erratic, loving, unfathomable and self destructive man.
It is written with eloquence and enormmous emotion and combines clinical information with an engaging and difficult story. This book should be essential clinical/psychological/psychiatric training material but it is also so much more than a reference text for unintiated clinicians. It is also a beautifully written and difficult story and while Jacobs tells you frankly of her pain it seems her ultimate task is to understand the lover who nearly destroyed her and himself and to raise our understanding of these castigated and misunderstood people. Excellent.
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