Autism and Personality Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop [Paperback]

Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, Autism and Personalityoutlines in considerable detail the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children. It also underlines the importance of support for parents and siblings, who are all too often ignored under considerable stress. The book presents fresh ideas about the importance of personality for the developmental course of the condition, and the implications for psychotherapeutic technique. Using case vignettes to illustrate the theoretical ideas emerging from the Workshop, coupled with case studies which highlight the patient's changing contact with the therapist, it gives a fascinating picture of the individuality of each child and of the sensitivity and skill required for each treatment.

Accessible to professionals and also to parents,Autism and Personalityis a valuable insight into the nature and course of this condition and its treatment.Alvarez, Reid,Introduction: Autism, Personality and the Family. Reid,The Assessment of the Child with Autism: A Family Perspective. Klauber, The Significance of Trauma and other Factors in Work with the Parents of Children with Autism. Alvarez, Addressing the Deficit: Developmentally Informed Psychotherapy with Passive, 'Undrawn' Children. Alvarez, Disorder, Deviance and Personality: Factors in the Persistence and Modifiability of Autism. Rhode,Echo or Answer? The Move Towards Ordinary Speech in Three Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Reid,Autism and Trauma: Autistic Post Traumatic Developmental Disorder. Reid, Catherine: The Wind Beneath my Wings: The Importance of Hope. Bartram, Sean: From Solitary Invulnerability to the Beginnings of Reciprocity at Very Early Infantile Levels. Pecotic, Edward: Lost al•