Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults: A Psychoanalytic Perspectiv

Description: Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective by Kate Barrows This is the first collection of papers published which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. 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 features are to be found in many adults???some would say in all of us. The insights contained in these papers open up access to deep levels of the human psyche and have far-reaching clinical implications. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 Review This book is part of the Psychoanalytic Ideas series which brings together the best of public lectures and other writings given by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.- Mary Mountstephen, SEN Magazine Long Description 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 features are to be found in many adults, some would say in all of us. The insights contained in these papers open up access to deep levels of the human psyche and have far-reaching clinical implications.This collection draws together papers which are central to todays psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and of autistic aspects of adult patients. Some of these papers are classics in the field while others describe more recent advances in understanding and technique. They show a broad range of psychoanalytic ideas and a variety of views... With autism, as with other conditions, the heart and the sustaining interest of psychoanalytic work lies in the relationship between the individuals symptoms and his personality and creative capacities. There may be a danger that the similarity of some of the presenting features and major anxieties shown by children on the autistic spectrum can obscure the fact of each child being different, having his own identity, and of the autism being interwoven with the individual personality in a unique way in every case. Psychoanalytic work with autistic children, or adults with autistic features, is a way of understanding their need to retreat from inner and external reality. When their fears can be faced, this can free them, to some extent and in varying degrees, to join the human family: to develop their own personalities, emotional lives and capacities for thought, imagination and relationships with other human beings. - From the IntroductionThe section on work with children includes chapters by Frances Tustin, Maria Rhode, Paul Barrows, Didier Houzel and David Simpson. In the field of work with adults, there are contributions by Frances Tustin, Sydney Klein, Thomas Ogden, Noemi and Pualuan de Gomberoff, Kate Barrows and Caroline Polmear. Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults is part of the Psychoanalytic Ideas series, which brings together the best of Public Lectures and other writings given by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society on important psychoanalytic subjects. In addition, this volume includes papers by eminent child psychotherapists and psychoanalysts from several different countries and psychoanalytic traditions. Review Text This book is part of the Psychoanalytic Ideas series which brings together the best of public lectures and other writings given by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.- Mary Mountstephen, SEN Magazine Details ISBN185575424X Short Title AUTISM IN CHILDHOOD & AUTISTIC Pages 306 Publisher Karnac Books Series Psychoanalytic Ideas Language English ISBN-10 185575424X ISBN-13 9781855754249 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-08-31 Imprint Karnac Books Subtitle A Psychoanalytic Perspective Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Kate Barrows DEWEY 616.85882 Author Kate Barrows DOI 10.1604/9781855754249 UK Release Date 2008-12-31 AU Release Date 2008-12-31 NZ Release Date 2008-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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