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Contacting the Autistic Child - Five successful early psychoanalytic interventions (Hardcover)
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Contacting the Autistic Child - Five successful early psychoanalytic interventions (Hardcover)
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Amid long-standing controversy on their causes, which most regard
as neurological, and despite their increasing social impact, there
has been scant progress in the therapy of the autistic spectrum
disorders. Currently fashionable attempts at treatment through
behavioural-cognitive focal approaches do not seek resolution, only
re-education and rehabilitation. Contacting the Autistic Child
explores the clinical process in the early psychoanalytic treatment
of autistic children. Organised around five detailed clinical case
studies, and drawing on the ideas of major clinicians in child
analysis such as Tustin, Winnicott and Alvarez, this book sets out
a clear programme for working with and understanding autistic
children in a psychoanalytic setting, with a particular focus on
issues of clinical technique but also conceptual matters. Working
on the notion that autistic disorders come to be - as Winnicott and
Tustin saw it - from an early rupture of the affective
communication between baby and mother, this book aims at
reinstating such communication in the child-analyst interaction. By
way of detailed description of what goes on in the analytic link,
the authors strive to make the reader share in what goes on in the
clinical setting, evincing how, though at times excruciatingly hard
on the therapist, resolution is attainable. Once the "primal
dialogue" - to use Rene Spitz's terms - is reinstated in a stable
way in session, it flows by itself into the family ambience. The
clinical accounts of this book make the argument that
psychoanalysis, carried along Tustin's technical lines, and subject
to the proviso that treatment starts early, preferably in the first
three years of life, is the treatment of choice for autistic
spectrum disorders. The strong methodological narrative is
important and notable in light of the doubts, criticism and
uncertainty that have surrounded the psychoanalytic treatment of
autism. This novel, highly detailed narrative of five successful
early treatments aims to help dispel the pessimism pervading the
field and help to redress the lives of many more children.
Contacting the Autistic Child will appeal to psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists endeavouring to obtain results in a
major area lacking resolutive approaches.
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