Infantile Autism A Clinical and Phenomenological-Anthropological Investigation Taking Language as the Guide

Infantile Autism A Clinical and Phenomenological-Anthropological Investigation Taking Language as the Guide / by Gerhard Bosch.

Professor Bosch's study of infantile autism is a most valuable contribution to the slowly increasing body of knowledge about this baffling and most severe psychiatrie disorder of childhood. Reading it in the original German when it first appeared in 1962, I was greatly impressed by his deep sym...

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Main Author: Bosch, Gerhard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1970.
Edition:1st ed. 1970.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Psychiatry.
Clinical psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Case Histories
  • III. Historical Approach to the Problem of Autism
  • IV. Phenomenological-Anthropological Preconditions and Method of the Investigation
  • V. The Picture of the Autistic Child in the Pre-lingual Stage of Development
  • VI. Language and World of Autistic Children
  • 1. Preliminary Remarks (Delayed Use of the Pronoun “I”)
  • 2. Paths to the “I” in Language (Phenomenology and History of Language)
  • 3. Paths to the “I” in the Language of Normal Children
  • 4. “Having” in the Language of Autistic Children
  • 5. “Acting” in the Language of Autistic Children
  • 6. Talking “with” the Other Person
  • 7. The Constitution of the “Other” in Language
  • 8. Imitation and Representation in the Language of the Autistic Child
  • VII. Summary and Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix: The Clinical Aspects of Infantile Autism
  • VIII. The Concept and Nature of Infantile Autism
  • IX. Symptomatology
  • X. Differences between the Asperger and Kanner Syndromes
  • XI. Etiology
  • 1. Genetic Factors
  • 2. Cerebral-Organic Factors
  • 3. The Question of the Basic Disturbance
  • 4. Psychogenetic Factors
  • XII. Prognosis and Development of the Condition
  • XIII. Therapy
  • XIV. Summary
  • Author Index.

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