Autism in childhood and autistic features in adults : a psychoanalytic perspective / edited by Kate Barrows.

This is the first collection of papers published in this country which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. The links between the two groups make for fascinating reading and go some way to explain the widespread interest in the enigma of autism. Many of the adult patien...

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Other Authors: Barrows, Kate
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac, 2008.
Series:Psychoanalytic ideas.
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Summary:This is the first collection of papers published in this country which spans work with autistic children and autistic features in adults. The links between the two groups make for fascinating reading and go some way to explain the widespread interest in the enigma of autism. Many of the adult patients described are less ill than autistic children whose development has ground to a halt at an early age, but at the core of their difficulties can be found autistic features remarkably similar to those of the more floridly disturbed children. This leads several writers to conclude that autistic feat.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781849406086
1849406081
1283070332
9781283070331
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.