Contacting the Autistic Child: Five Successful Early Psychoanalytic Interventions

by Luisa C. Busch de Ahumada and Jorge L. Ahumada

Amid long-standing controversy on their causes, which most regard as neurological, and despite their increasing social impact, there has been scant progress in the therapy of the autistic spectrum disorders. Currently fashionable attempts at treatment through behavioural-cognitive focal approaches do not seek resolution, only re-education and rehabilitation. Contacting the Autistic Child explores the clinical process in the early psychoanalytic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138211672
• ISBN13: 9781138211674
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"