Treating Autism Today - Lacanian Perspectives (Paperback)

Drawing together an international range of psychoanalytic practitioners, this collection provides a critique of mainstream models of autism, looking at the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of the behavioural and cognitive approaches popular today. The first book to provide a psychoanalytic unpacking of standard non-analytic approaches, it offers a series of critical essays on mainstream assumptions, examining their history, foundations, and validity from a variety of angles. The authors consider, from the Lacanian perspective, the hypothesis of the biological-genetic causality of autism, as well as the claims of these approaches to offer effective therapy. These discussions are historically contextualised by an introduction and afterword that also provide pointers and references to further reading on Lacanian approaches to autism. Illustrated throughout by clinical examples, Treating Autism Today will be of interest to Lacanian clinicians and scholars, as well as psychotherapists, psychologists, and those working with children diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Editors:	Laura Tarsia • Kristina Valendinova
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	132
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-36989-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Promotions
LSN:	0-367-36989-3
Barcode:	9780367369897

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