The incidence of autism is approximately 2 to 5 per 1,000 people.
The World Health Organization estimates that there are approximately 15 million people with autism in the world, except for a few lucky ones.
The vast majority of young patients are isolated from normal society for life.
Scientists have been exploring the causes and treatments of autism for more than half a century. There are sanatoriums and research institutes around the world that treat autism.
Sadly, like many mental illnesses.
In today’s highly developed science world, treatment options for autism still remain in the category of empirical therapy.
Doctors can only roughly judge which treatment options are effective and which ones are ineffective based on past case experiments.
The few drugs developed only play a supporting role.
In addition to more scientific statistical methods, we will not find priests to use holy water to exorcise demons or stick a probe from the corner of your eye to stir your prefrontal lobe into a paste to create artificial dementia.
The methods of treating mental illness in the twenty-first century are not fundamentally different from those of decades or even centuries ago.
"Some researchers actually believe that the new version of the Little Prince can communicate with patients' hearts."
Sir Brown was extremely jealous.
He clearly knows how great the honor and attention will be once this conjecture is true.
It is not necessarily a fantasy that illustrations can cure autism.
The most troublesome thing about autism is that patients often have language or social communication difficulties.
When they are thirty years old, they are still as afraid of the outside world as babies, and can only communicate with their parents and other close relatives using very simple words.
It seems that there is an invisible barrier that separates autistic babies from the perception of the outside world, and also blocks doctors from understanding them.
Even the most experienced psychiatrists need to have sufficient communication with patients when designing medical cases.
And the little patients with autism will not understand your words and will obediently fill you in some kind of self-analysis questionnaire for mental problems or quantitative analysis form of abc behavior for autistic children.
Pictures, a non-verbal and non-written form of expression, have become world-recognized as the best bridge for patients to communicate with the outside world.
Illustrations can open the door to communication with little or no verbal interaction.
Autism intervention classrooms around the world will be equipped with watercolor pens, oil pastels and fairy tale illustration books.
This has become a conventional rule.
Even some psychologists in related fields will learn certain professional painting knowledge.
For example, the famous Kennedy Treatment Center, a super hospital like this, is directly equipped with an entire team of professional illustrators to perform artistic intervention, and the curative effect is very good.
Kennedy Treatment Center is known as the best in the world for autistic childrenWhile "taking off my hat" pays attention to the magical place, it also brings about hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment costs for each course of treatment.
Note that the behavior of autistic children has greatly improved and they can integrate into normal life. It is called hating off among patient family groups.
A few courses of treatment can easily cost millions of dollars, which is more expensive than treating cancer at private hospitals such as Mayo and Anderson.
The key is a bottomless pit.
Generally, the commercial insurance for pregnant women purchased by golden-collar elite families does not dare to cover such expensive medical items. Except for one in 100,000 richest people in the world, no one can afford such an expensive expense, so there is no possibility of universal promotion.
Psychologists and intervention therapy experts around the world are looking for illustrations that can better penetrate the hearts of all patients.
In the past, a sub-project under the WHO even contacted an oil painting magazine.
With the style of oil painting, I don’t think it would be suitable for illustration.
In Sir Brown's reply, he also humorously suggested that the other party should contact Disney for this kind of thing.
Just.
There are so many painters in the world, why is this detective cat?
"Lack of artistry" is a very useful hat, if God blocks it, it will kill God, and if Buddha blocks it, it will kill Buddha.
You draw beautifully, but I can scold you for your lack of artistry.
If you sell it expensively, I can scold you for your lack of artistry.
I can still scold you for your lack of artistry just because you don’t like it.
There are only two things in the world that are truly higher than art.
Power and soul.
The soil of art is attached to power, and the essence of art serves the soul.
In ancient times, both of these things were attached to the church. Therefore, the literature records that a small regional priest could point his nose and scold Michelangelo for his sculptures that were not in line with his wishes. He ranked among the three masters of the Renaissance. Even the masters of art dare not speak back.
In today's society, with Sir Brown's current social status, he is actually qualified to despise power.
When I spoke at the European Art Annual Conference, the President of Austria and important senior officials of the European Union stood up and applauded.
However.
When he heard the news that a medical team believed that Detective Cat’s paintings might be able to touch the lonely hearts of autistic children in layers of isolation, Sir Brown still felt uneasy in his heart.
He sat back in the chair, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled.
How many years has it been
For the first time since he took charge of the magazine, the chairman suddenly felt that the power to measure the artistic value of works may not be entirely in his own hands.
There was silence in the antique office.
The only sound left was the heavy breathing of the two men.
“This is what Professor Boggs is afraid of. He would rather give up the opportunity to hold an exhibition than become his enemy.The charm of the product. Sir Brown, I wonder if you are afraid. But when I read this news, I really felt a little scared. "
The first person to speak was the Al-Khelaifi shareholder.
"I didn't mention it to anyone. The moment I saw this Little Prince, I actually hesitated for a moment. Do I really want to be an enemy of such a painter? What is before me is not an unpopular knife painting, but a traditional and authentic oil painting. Maybe I will lose the courage to attack such a work of art. "
Khelaifi stood up, looked out the window, and said slowly, "I know that among the shareholders present at that time, I must not be the only one who has the same idea as me. "
Sir Brown snorted.
"I'm afraid it's a little late to regret it now. The decision has been made, and the result of giving up halfway is to draw water from a bamboo basket and come up empty-handed. "
"No, friend, we have embarked on the same warship. There is no room for regret."
Khelaifi shook his head, "I just recalled that day more than once. The scene when shareholders vote. "
"That afternoon, twelve of us shareholders collectively lied. This was our first vote since we evicted Anna from her seat on the board. I'm not a very honest person, but this never bodes well and always reminds me of a scene from a famous painting. "
"The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David"
Sir Brown remembered the words of his female secretary Eliot and said angrily, "Even if it is true that the mob expelled Socrates . After Socrates died, there were still hundreds of years before the real decline of Athens. Don't worry, we probably won't see that day anyway. "
"No, no, my friend, it is not the death of Socrates, but the Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci. ”
Khelaifi walked to the wall and looked up at the top of the glittering medal display cabinet, where the portrait of old Count Irena originally hung.
In the dazzling array of beautiful things, Among the famous paintings for selection.
Sir Brown finally chose Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper to be placed here.
This painting records the biblical story of Jesus and his disciples. The scene of Judas having the last supper with the 12 disciples before being betrayed and crucified is not a coincidence.
If one picture can be used to summarize the entire West. Art history.
Among the so-called three famous paintings in the world, Mona Lisa is actually too petty, while Lady of the Palace and Night Patrol are a little less famous.
On the contrary, Leonardo da Vinci is. The work that took the most time and energy in his life, the replica of the religious mural The Last Supper in the Milan church, has a unique historical status.
Sir Brown’s choice is completely reasonable.
It’s just
“When I walked into the office today, I saw that you had placed this painting in your office, which made me feel even more inexplicably flustered. ”
“YouYou know, I am a person who believes in omens. Counting you and Miss Elena, there were exactly thirteen voting shareholders attending that meeting. ”
Khelaifi stood in front of the picture frame with a big belly.
He unbuttoned his vest, pulled out a silver cross chain from his collar and put it on Kiss on the mouth.
“Tell me, what role does each of us play in this change? Athens continued to prosper for 100 years after Socrates’ death. In the mythical story, only three days passed between the time the betrayed disciple received the thirty silver coins as reward for betraying the Savior and the day he hung himself under a tree. ”
“Father in Heaven, forgive my sin of dishonesty, I wish I was not Judas. ”
The chief artistic consultant from the Met said very profoundly.
Didi di di
Sir Brown’s cell phone rang and he picked up the phone.< /p>
"No matter what news you have, I am very busy now, please call me again later. Agenda after postponement. "He said angrily to the personal assistant who called.
"Sir, I'm sorry, but Mr. Anthony called, maybe you need to call him back. "The assistant said urgently.
"Go on. If he contacted me about anything, all financial matters will be taken care of by Kruger Bank. "
The chairman said patiently.
Anthony is a well-known wealthy businessman in Rio de Janeiro. He holds 17 million shares of Vale Group, the world's largest iron ore producer.
He belongs to the kind of rich man who doesn’t have time to pick up $100 if it falls on the ground.
Of course, this kind of rich man has no regard for art. Investments are still very interested in tax avoidance activities based on art funds.
Anthony is one of the wealthy businessmen who is most interested in investing in the oil painting fund, with an initial investment of more than nine figures.
Sir Brown is really hard to refuse a call from this kind of person.
"Mr. Anthony saw the news this morning. He wants to know about the illustration of the Little Prince." The assistant's nervous voice sounded. came from the phone receiver
“Tell Anthony not to worry, I’ll call him in person later. ”
Before the secretary could finish speaking, Sir Brown pressed down the phone impatiently.
He stood up in a hurry.
There is no free time to accompany him now. What kind of fairy tale did Al-Khelaifi go?
The world's richest people are really not much easier to serve than God.
The heat of some news is like passing through the dry leaves in autumn. A spark of static electricity will spread like a prairie fire at an unimaginable speed.
Originally, the topic of the Little Prince was already very hot, but it was only limited to the circles of art lovers and literary youths. Among the layers.
Affected by the acquisition of Oil Painting Magazine, some financial investors are also paying attention to the news in this field.The news from the economics critic directly ignited the discussion of this topic in the entire media public opinion field.
Many large newspapers that can affect the daily lives of millions of people have reprinted and cited this news.
New hope for universal art therapy in The New York Times: A scientific exploration inspired by the unintentional insertion of fairy tale books
The century-old legacy of Saint-Exupéry in The Times Can the illustration of a smiling little girl make millions of autistic families smile?
Le Figaro is approaching April 2, the International Autism Awareness Day, let us focus on A new edition of the fairy tale book has just been released in the UK.
Other newspapers such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Sydney Morning Herald all mentioned some interesting facts about this new illustrated book.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for ordinary diseases to attract such high attention.
Autism and Alzheimer's disease are exceptions.
The disease that attracted the most attention 50 years ago was cancer, 30 years ago it was AIDS, and in the past 10 years it has turned to the neurological field.
They tend to have a high incidence rate and great influence.
An ordinary community resident will always have elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and children with autism.
Even cancer has targeted drugs. Mental illness often occurs around everyone, but only external intervention and treatment can be provided.
In the past, whenever a pharmaceutical company announced that a drug for Alzheimer's disease had entered the third or fourth clinical phase, it often attracted full attention from society, and the company's stock price soared.
Autism is no less tormenting families than Alzheimer’s disease.
And the upcoming April, in addition to being the Easter holiday in many European countries, April 2 is also World Autism Day selected by the United Nations General Assembly.
Every major global news media will publish some special reports on the topic of "autism" at this time every year.
TV stations often launch special programs.
King’s College London’s research on the illustrations of the Little Prince happened to attract the attention of major media.
Besides, a magical illustration with medical effects is also news that can arouse readers' curiosity.
For a while.
Even President Osborne, who was sitting in his office on the top floor of London's Financial Street, stared like bells when he saw the sales statistics reported.
This is no longer a question of whether to sing "tryroad" or not.
Even if he was mentally prepared in advance, the CEO was still dumbfounded.
For a book that is not a newcomer’s work and has a certain degree of popularity, the first-day sales volume is the highest in its sales career.
Sometimes more than 2% of the total sales volume can be sold on the first day.
It will continue to fall after that.
The little prince presentedShowing such a trend, on the fifth day of release, sales in the UK had dropped to 5,000 copies per day.
The negative attitude from the critics, while increasing the popularity, did also dispel some people’s enthusiasm for buying.
Osborne was originally very optimistic about this.
The sales data are already much better than expected.
If the daily shipment volume can be stabilized at 3,000 copies in April, and the dream of selling one million copies a year can begin, I will be happy.
But the facts tell Osborne what happiness means when it comes so suddenly.
March 31, 2023, is the sixth day that Little Prince goes on sale.
Perhaps due to the weekend, there was a lot of growth in physical bookstores, and the sales data returned to 6,300 books.
And it’s the last day of this week.
On April 1, the attention of the press began to slowly reflect on the market sales, and the sales data began to rise again, reaching 8,100 copies.
In the first sales week of Little Prince, the total sales volume was fixed at 46,721 copies.
This number has the chance to top the book sales list in previous years.
Unfortunately, this year we ran into a spare tire that caused a wave of gossip among people around the world. It has been on the market for more than a hundred days and still achieved weekly sales of 75,000 copies.
Fortunately, the little prince won the third place. The romance that pushed his Federer autobiography off the top of the list last year really has more than 10,000 copies. It can be regarded as an honor to publish for President Osborne despite defeat. A breath of bad breath that came over ten months later.
If we talk about the sales performance of 40,000 copies, Osborne feels like being brushed by a slight pulse current massager, which is a stimulating and refreshing feeling.
Then the sales report card for the next week
Uncle Osborne was so excited that he rolled his eyes and fainted.
On April 2, we entered The Easter public holiday in most countries across Europe has also entered the real "Easter promotion season".
Like Black Friday every year, the Easter sales season is also a day when major booksellers collectively ship large quantities of books.
They will issue various book vouchers and shopping discount coupons.
Physical bookstores such as Saraiva, Waterstones, and Barnesaaanobe sometimes implement dynamic discounts linked to bestseller lists.
The so-called dynamic discounts refer to the in-store sales discounts of these bookstore operators during the Easter holiday, which will be tied to the book sales rankings in real time.
For example, for works on the lists of authoritative book statistics websites such as the New York Times, The Moon or Odreads, the first 5,010 purchasers will receive a 10% discount, and the first 103 purchasers will receive a 15% discount.
The top three will receive a 30% discount directly to stimulate sales.
This is why the schostic setThe main reason why the group must list books one week in advance.
Spurred by various promotional methods, the Matthew Effect is formed. Books that have sold better in the past tend to sell more explosively during the Easter holidays.
The major media's promotion of the little prince also exerted its real effect at this moment.
Perhaps Spare Tire is really the second book in human history after Harry Potter that sold more than one million copies on the first day in Europe in the book commercial market over the past thousand years. It is completely amazing. Monster player.
Many data analysts have predicted that it will dominate the weekly sales list for thousands of days.
Perhaps even in the best dreams of the board of directors and executives of Schostic Group, they never imagined that their new little prince could compete with such a best-selling book.
However, miracles only happen when they feel most incredible.
Since April 2nd, the competition between the "little" prince and the "spare tire" prince has become absolutely intense.
On Monday, The Little Prince sold 13,571 copies.
Not only did it rebound to the daily average sales mark of 10,000 copies a week later, it also set a new record for the highest daily average sales of Little Prince in the UK.
The spare tire is even more fierce.
During the Easter holiday, Fix once again used its streaming client to attract traffic for the feature documentary Harry and Meghan that accompanies the book.
This documentary, with a signing fee of hundreds of millions of US dollars alone, has been watched for more than one billion hours globally, making it the most successful documentary in the history of Netflix.
Under the constant bombardment of streaming media and major TV advertisements.
The sales volume of Spare Tire is a terrifying 28,751 copies per day, leading the pack.
On Tuesday, sales of The Little Prince continued to grow, reaching 17,521 copies. The sales volume of spare tires was 28,329 copies.
On Wednesday, sales of The Little Prince reached 20,036 copies.
The number of spare tires continued to lead with 23,569 copies.
The average daily sales gap between the two parties in the UK has been narrowed to less than 3,000 copies.
The new edition of The Little Prince has become the fifth fairy tale book in British history to sell more than 20,000 copies a day.
From this moment on, all book readers understand that the best-selling book this Easter holiday will only be between the two books The Little Prince and The Spare Tire.
In fact, most people feel that there is no suspense about the sales champion.
Even though the little prince is as powerful as taking an aphrodisiac, and after all, the spare tire has been on the market for a long time, the audience has already developed a certain aesthetic fatigue with this royal gossip.
However, within three days of the promotion, the sales gap between Little Prince and Little Prince was close to 30,000 copies.
It is possible to chase 30,000 copies in four days, but it is very difficult
The only thing people are interested in is this Easter holidayIn this period's battle of princes, is it possible for the little prince of the Schostic Group to once again take the spare tire from the throne of single-day sales champion?
There are even boring bookmakers that have opened special odds for this purpose.
Schostic Group was also amazed by the achievements of the little prince.
Such a strong daily sales volume is also a rare sight for a publishing house with a market capitalization of tens of billions.
The board of directors urgently allocated another million US dollars and began to build momentum for the little prince through various channels.
Various book review articles, advertisements, and promotional messages began to bombard me in turn.
Mainstream book shopping malls also have banners on their homepages.
The elusiveness of the market is.
What really dropped a blockbuster in the public sector was not the second million-dollar special publicity fund of the Schostic Group.
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