Autism in childhood and autistic features in adults a psychoanalytic perspective (Karnac, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
A psychiatric approach to autism and its relationship to a psychoanalytic perspective / David Simpson -- A significant element in the development of psychogenic autism / Frances Tustin -- Finding the wavelength : tools in communication with children with autism / Anne Alvarez -- Analysis of a little girl with an autistic syndrome / Velleda Cecchi -- "Playful" therapy : working with autism and trauma / Paul Barrows -- The creation of psychic space, the "nest of babies" fantasy and the emergence of the Oedipus complex / Didier Houzel -- Joining the human family / Maria Rhode -- Autistic phenomena in neurotic patients / H. Sydney Klein -- The rhythm of safety / Frances Tustin -- The autistic object : its relationship with narcissism in the transference and counterfransference of neurotic and borderline patients / Mario J. Gomberoff, Carmen C. Noemi and Liliana Pualuan de Gomberoff -- Working analytically with autistic-contiguous aspects of experience / Thomas H. Ogden -- On the survival function of autistic manoevres in adult patients / Judith Mitrani -- Keeping the ghosts at bay : an autistic retreat and its relationship to parental losses / Kate Barrows -- Finding the bridge : psychoanalysis with two adults with autistic features / Caroline Polmear