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1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) |
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Psychoanalytic ideas |
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Psychoanalytic ideas.
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| Contents |
A psychiatric approach to autism and its relationship to a psychoanalytic perspective / David Simpson -- A significant element in the development of psychogenic autism / Frances Tustin -- Finding the wavelength : tools in communication with children with autism / Anne Alvarez -- Analysis of a little girl with an autistic syndrome / Velleda Cecchi -- "Playful" therapy : working with autism and trauma / Paul Barrows -- The creation of psychic space, the "nest of babies" fantasy and the emergence of the Oedipus complex / Didier Houzel -- Joining the human family / Maria Rhode -- Autistic phenomena in neurotic patients / H. Sydney Klein -- The rhythm of safety / Frances Tustin -- The autistic object : its relationship with narcissism in the transference and counterfransference of neurotic and borderline patients / Mario J. Gomberoff, Carmen C. Noemi and Liliana Pualuan de Gomberoff -- Working analytically with autistic-contiguous aspects of experience / Thomas H. Ogden -- On the survival function of autistic manoevres in adult patients / Judith Mitrani -- Keeping the ghosts at bay : an autistic retreat and its relationship to parental losses / Kate Barrows -- Finding the bridge : psychoanalysis with two adults with autistic features / Caroline Polmear |
| Summary |
This is the first collection of papers published in this country which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. The links between the two groups make for fascinating reading and go some way to explain the widespread interest in the enigma of autism. Many of the adult patients described are less ill than autistic children whose development has ground to a halt at an early age, but at the core of their difficulties can be found autistic features remarkably similar to those of the more floridly disturbed children. This leads several writers to conclude that autistic feat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Autism.
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Autistic children.
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Adulthood.
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Children.
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Autistic Disorder -- psychology
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Autistic Disorder -- therapy
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Adult
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Child
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Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods
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Autistic Disorder
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children (people by age group)
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MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
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Children
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Adulthood
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Autism
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Autistic children
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Autismus
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Psychoanalyse
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barrows, Kate
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| ISBN |
9781849406086 |
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1849406081 |
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1283070332 |
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9781283070331 |
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