Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Diana Thielst

From Autism and Mutism to an Enlivened Self (eBook, ePUB)

A Case Narrative with Reflections on Early Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Autism and Mutism to an Enlivened Self explores the importance of intimacy, interaction with the environment and the mind-body connection in early childhood development, with specific reference to autism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429778735
• Artikelnr.: 54679425

Autorenporträt

Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, and a member of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Diana Thielst, M.D., is a pseudonym under which the co-author of this book is writing about the treatment of her autistic daughter. She is a scientist and musician.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Anna
Chapter 1: From missing relationship at birth to missing name and language at age 5
Chapter 2: The four critical months before the sixth birthday: from learning her name to reading and from reading to learning to speak in 1000 hours
Chapter 3: New life begins: discovering the world beyond Legos and puzzles, 1992 spring to 1993 fall
Chapter 4: Coming to America becomes a window to the world Part II: Commentary on two remarkable journeys: one therapeutic for Dr. Diana Thielst and Anna
and one of discovery for psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Chapter 5: The recognition of autism as a developmental disorder
Kanner's approach
A comment on terms
The etiology of early infantile autism
Two other experiences of children with autism
Gus: To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness Of Machines
Owen: Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Interest and purpose: expanding the scope of being a doer doing
Chapter 6: At birth what becomes activated in normal development and fails to become activated in neonates with autism
Comparing adaptive qualities and capacities normally emerging in the first year of life with the more limited resources of the one-year-old infant with autism
Chapter 7: A doer doing and the core sense of self
Infant-mother face-to-face interactions and the development of conversational language
Faces - the pathway to intimacy
inanimate objects - the pathway to mastery
The pathway to a healthy body, physical functioning, and mind-body connection
Turning on to human relatedness
The turn on of adapting infants
Early steps that unfold and integrate in adaptive development References
Index