Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults: Clinical Intervention Methods and Technique

ISBN-13: 9781138497801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Laura Tremelloni

Opis

Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of working with patients with autistic residuals, formed in early life experiences that have remained dormant in the unconscious mind. Laura Tremelloni traces the process of identifying them in adult patients, and stresses the need to develop a treatment plan suitable for this kind of pathology.

Spis treści

Preface: explorations in terra incognita; Acknowledgements; Introduction PART I Chapter 1: About autism Chapter 2: About skin: the skin as a surface of the body Chapter 3: About sight and beauty PART II Chapter 4: Clinical examples Chapter 5: Sara: living on the surface Chapter 6: Irene: from robot-like to person Chapter 7: Beatriz: backwards love Chapter 8: Monica: the psychic retreat PART III Chapter 9: First encounters: adventures into the unknown Chapter 10: Transference and countertransference Chapter 11: The challenges of working with autistic traits Chapter 12: Suggestions for therapeutic interventions; Conclusions

O autorze

Laura Tremelloni is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Milan, Italy, working particularly with autistic children and adults as well as psychotic patients. Her psychoanalytic training took place with analysts including Benedetti, Cremerius and McDougall, and then with Resnik, Tustin and Alvarez. She is a founding member of the Centro Internazionale Studi Psicodinamici della Personalità (CISPP), Venice, with Salomon Resnik and other colleagues, where lessons, seminars and meetings are held regularly, especially on infantile autism and psychosis.