The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger's, under the heading -autism spectrum disorder.- This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians. Instead, finer diagnostic distinctions are helpful to clinicians who treat children with Asperger's whereas lumping everything together is not.

The book spells out in detail the psychodynamics the author has repeatedly uncovered in Asperger's children, adolescents, and adults. There are suggestions about central factors in the aetiology of Asperger's Disorder. There is a section...