The protective shell in children and adults

This book suggests that psychotherapeutic treatment which is based on a deep understanding of the function of autism can modify and heal the overwhelming need for this powerful inbuilt survival reaction, so that it is used appropriately in a less overall and crippling way. The author'stheme in...

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Autor principal: Tustin, Frances (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America by Brunner Mazel, Karnac Books 1992.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798070006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE What autism is and what autism is not; CHAPTER TWO To be or not to be; CHAPTER THREE Psychotherapy as a treatment for autistic children; CHAPTER FOUR Confirmations of findings from psychotherapy with autistic children; CHAPTER FIVE Psychotherapy with children who cannot play; CHAPTER SIX The child who taught me about autistic encapsulation; CHAPTER SEVEN The autistic capsule in neurotic adult patients; CHAPTER EIGHT Other workers' applications of findings from autistic children to neurotic adult patients
  • CHAPTER NINE Being born from the autistic shell: becoming part of a groupCHAPTER TEN Autism in an adult patient; CHAPTER ELEVEN Closing remarks; CHAPTER TWELVE A statement; THE BROKEN BOND; REFERENCES; INDEX