Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop

by Alvarez; Anne

• ISBN13: 9780415146029
• ISBN10: 041514602X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach,Autism and Personalityoutlines the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop in London to treat autistic children. It also underlines the importance of support for parents and siblings, who are all too often ignored as a factor in the child's progress. The contributors present fresh ideas about the importance of personality in the development of the condition, and the implications of psychotherapeutic technique. Using vignettes to illustrate theoretical ideas, coupled with vivid case studies highlighting the patient's changing contact with the therapist, the book gives a fascinating picture of the individuality of each child and of the sensitivity and skill required for each treatment. Accessible to both parents and professionals,Autism and Personalityprovides valuable insight into the nature and course of autism and its treatment.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Autism, Personality and the Family

The Assessment of the Child with Autism: A Family Perspective

The Significance of Trauma and other Factors in Work with the Parents of Children with Autism

Addressing the Deficit: Developmentally Informed Psychotherapy with Passive, `Undrawn' Children

Disorder, Deviance and Personality: Factors in the Persistence and Modifiability of Autism

Echo or Answer? The Move Towards Ordinary Speech in Three Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Autism and Trauma: Autistic Post Traumatic Developmental Disorder

The Wind Beneath my Wings: The Importance of Hope

From Solitary Invulnerability to the Beginnings of Reciprocity at Very Early Infantile Levels

Lost and Found: From Passive Withdrawal to Symbolic Functioning

Hold on or You'll Fall: The Struggle to Become an Ordinary Boy

Despot or Subject: The Discovery of Beauty in a Wilful, Passionate Child

From Numbers to Numeracy: From Knowledge to Knowing in a Ten Year Old Boy with Asperger's Syndrome

Motive in her Mindlessness: the Discovery of Autistic Features in a Learning Disabled Adolescent

From Passive and Sensuous Compliance to a More Lively Independence: Limited Therapeutic Objectives with a Verbal Adolescent

Toward Solid Ground: A Request for a Second Course of Psychotherapy in an Adolescent

Endpiece

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