The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome

ISBN-13: 9781855759305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 302 str.

Maria Rhode; Trudy Klauber

Opis

This pioneering book is a multidisciplinary collection of papers from psychiatrists, psychologists and child psychotherapists that aims to address the issue of variation within the diagnostic category of Asperger's Syndrome. Until now, books on the subject have been written from an organicist/cognitive viewpoint with few papers from a psychoanalytically informed basis, despite an increasing number of child psychotherapists treating children and adolescents with the syndrome. Children diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome share core anxieties but present a wide spectrum of strikingly different character traits and coping devices. There exists considerable overlap with other conditions such as Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder, Borderline Personality, Schizoid Personality Disorder and psychopathy.

The collection boasts a new translation of Asperger's original paper and a historical review of the changing psychiatric perspectives on Asperger's Syndrome, including recollections from Lionel Hersov, a personal acquaintance of Asperger. A child psychotherapist provides a commentary on Asperger's paper from the perspective of recent developments in the psychoanalytic treatment of children with autistic spectrum disorders. Cognitive approaches are reviewed and compared and contrasted to psychoanalytic theory. Two first-person accounts are included and studied as to how they link with and differ to psychoanalytic theory and the case study of a 10-year-old boy is discussed in relation to various diagnostic criteria.

This groundbreaking book will be of interest to mental health professionals, teachers and all those concerned with Asperger's Syndrome.

Contributors include Anne Alvarez, Lionel Hersov, Sally Hodges, Trudy Klauber, Maria Rhode, Judy Shuttleworth, David Simpson.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- This is Asperger’s Syndrome -- Asperger’s syndrome and Autism: distinct syndromes with important similarities -- A psychological perspective on theories of Asperger’s syndrome -- A child psychotherapist’s commentary on Hans Asperger’s 1944 paper, “‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood” -- What does it feel like? Two first-person accounts by adults with Asperger’s syndrome -- Finding the bridge: psychoanalytic work with Asperger’s syndrome adults -- Is this Asperger’s Syndrome? Issues of Assessment -- Issues in assessment: Asperger’s syndrome and personality -- A matter of life and death: bodily integrity and psychic survival -- Clinical Case Histories -- Sleeping beauty: the development of psychic strength, love, and imagination in a 4-year-old girl -- Out of the nightmare: the treatment of a 5-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome -- Hiding and learning to seek: becoming a somebody -- The lure of a mad world: supporting a 10-year-old boy’s capacity for ordinary contact -- “I need my scripts”: A boy with Asperger’s syndrome entering adolescence -- On becoming of consequence -- Psychotherapy and community care -- Endpiece

O autorze

Trudy Klauber is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, where she is also Acting Head of Child Psychotherapy. Maria Rhode is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London.