The Creation of the Self and Language: Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World

ISBN-13: 9781780491356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str.

David Rosenfeld

Opis

Helps us witness what the author's treatment of Benjamin, a young boy with a diagnosis of autism, was actually like.

Spis treści

Foreword -- the Autistic Child -- Introduction -- Revisiting Freud from the standpoint of his writings on aphasia -- Some modern psychoanalytic theories on autism -- The child’s relationship with the Other and with language: some concepts of Merleau-Ponty and Henri Wallon -- Benjamin -- Testimonies -- Transformation

O autorze

David Rosenfeld was trained in Buenos Aires. He lived and studied in Paris and London and also in the United States. He is a Consultant Professor at Buenos Aires University, Faculty of Medicine, in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry; a Training Analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society; and an Ex-Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)