Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults - A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Sommario

Introduction -- Autism in Children -- A psychiatric approach to autism and its relationship to a psychoanalytic perspective -- A significant element in the development of psychogenic autism -- Finding the wavelength: tools in communication with children with autism -- Analysis of a little girl with an autistic syndrome -- “Playful” therapy: working with autism and trauma -- The creation of psychic space, the “nest of babies” fantasy and the emergence of the Oedipus complex -- Joining the human family -- Autistic Features in Adults -- Autistic phenomena in neurotic patients -- The rhythm of safety -- The autistic object: its relationship with narcissism in the transference and countertransference of neurotic and borderline patients -- Working analytically with autistic-contiguous aspects of experience -- On the survival function of autistic manoeuvres in adult patients -- Keeping the ghosts at bay: an autistic retreat and its relationship to parental losses -- Finding the bridge: psychoanalysis with two adults with autistic features 1

Info autore

Kate Barrows is a training analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice in Bristol. She is also a Tavistock-trained child psychotherapist and currently works as a staff member of the Child and Family Service at the Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts.

Riassunto

This book discusses psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and of autistic aspects of adult patients. It describes a wide range of adult patients who are highly articulate, successful people having nonetheless an encapsulated autistic area which blocks communication with others.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kate Barrows
• Con la collaborazione di: Kate Barrows (Editore), Barrows Kate (Editore), Paul Williams (Editore), Inge Wise (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367323417
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32341-7
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Autism and Aspergers