1st Edition
The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
318 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book on the psychoanalytic treatment of children, young people and adults with Asperger’s syndrome. It includes multidisciplinary contributions on psychiatric perspectives and psychological theories of the condition. There is an overview of relevant psychoanalytic theory, and chapters on Asperger’s original paper, on firstperson accounts, on assessment and on care in the... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- This is Asperger’s Syndrome -- Asperger’s syndrome and Autism: distinct syndromes with important similarities -- A psychological perspective on theories of Asperger’s syndrome -- A child psychotherapist’s commentary on Hans Asperger’s 1944 paper, “‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood” -- What does it feel like? Two first-person accounts by adults with Asperger’s syndrome -- Finding the bridge: psychoanalytic work with Asperger’s syndrome adults -- Is this Asperger’s Syndrome? Issues of Assessment -- Issues in assessment: Asperger’s syndrome and personality -- A matter of life and death: bodily integrity and psychic survival -- Clinical Case Histories -- Sleeping beauty: the development of psychic strength, love, and imagination in a 4-year-old girl -- Out of the nightmare: the treatment of a 5-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome -- Hiding and learning to seek: becoming a somebody -- The lure of a mad world: supporting a 10-year-old boy’s capacity for ordinary contact -- “I need my scripts”: A boy with Asperger’s syndrome entering adolescence -- On becoming of consequence -- Psychotherapy and community care -- Endpiece
Biography
Trudy Klauber is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, where she is also Acting Head of Child Psychotherapy. Maria Rhode is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London.
