R. Peter Hobson

Autism and the Development of Mind (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how the phenomenon of early childhood autism may cast light on issues that are central to our understanding of normal child development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135064730
• Artikelnr.: 54932517

Autorenporträt

R. Peter Hobson is Lifetime Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Tavistock Clinic, London, and Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, UCL. He is a psychoanalyst, a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. His previous books are Autism and the Development of Mind (Erlbaum, 1993), The Cradle of Thought (Pan Macmillan 2002/Oxford University Press, 2004) and, as editor and principal contributor, Consultations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Karnac, 2014). He is semi-retired and living in California.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Prolegomena
Introduction
The Autistic Individual
The Interpersonal Domain
Self and Other
The Capacity to Symbolise
Explaining Autism
The Perspective of Developmental Psychopathology
2. The Picture of Autism
The Earliest Years
The Cardinal Features of Autism
Beyond Childhood
Autism "From the Inside"
3. Interpersonal R elatedness I: The Norm al Infant
Early Personal Relatedness
Capacities for Social Perception
The Development of Self
Overview
4. Interpersonal R elatedness II: The Case of Autism
Interpersonal Relatedness and Relationships
Imitation
Attachment
Self
development
Conclusion
5. The Growth of Interpersonal Understanding
"Explicit" Interpersonal Understanding in Normal
Development
The Case of Autism
Conclusion
6. Conceptual Issues I: On Understanding Minds
"Theory of Mind"
What it Means to Understand "Belief'
Bodies and Minds
Persons and Selves
The Emotional Origins of Psychological Understanding
7. Conceptual Issues II: On Thought and Language
The Nature of Thinking
Perceiving, Acting, and Feeling
The Nature of Symbolic Functioning
Developing the Capacity to Symbolise
The Interpersonal Origins of Symbolic Functioning
Communication and Language
Recapitulation
8. Thought and Language: The Case of Autism
A Clinical Example
A Theoretical Perspective
The Capacity to Symbolise
Language
Analysing Communication
Cognition Revisited
9. The Development of Mind and the Case of Autism
The Normal Development of Mind
The Theoretical
Challenge
A Theory of Development
The Case of Autism
Congenital Blindness
Epilogue
References
Author index
Subject index.