Autism and Aspergers Books
Counseling Adults with Autism: A Comprehensive Toolkit
Counseling Adults with Autism is a practical guide for counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals looking to improve their confidence and competence in counseling adults... (more)
Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self: The Legacy of Frances Tustin
Frances Tustin was a pioneering child psychotherapist who broke new ground in working with autistic children in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book amplifies and extends contributions... (more)
Autistic Transformations: Bion's Theory and Autistic Phenomena
This book is a collection of articles written between 1992 and 2005 which attempts to bring two universes together – Bion’s referential and autistic phenomena. The field of clinical work which the... (more)
The Many Faces of Asperger's Syndrome
This is the first book on the psychoanalytic treatment of children, young people and adults with Asperger's syndrome. It includes multi-disciplinary contributions on psychiatric perspectives and... (more)
The Protective Shell in Children and Adults
The Protective Shell in Children and Adults does not propose a 'cure' for autism. Rather, it suggests that psychotherapeutic treatment which is based on a deep understanding of the function of autism... (more)
Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism
Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism provides fresh insights into the cognitive processes that underlie some of the typical characteristics of autism. Autism has long been considered an... (more)
Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives
Often thought of as a predominantly male disorder, girls on the autism spectrum have long gone unidentified, unnoticed, and unsupported - sometimes with devastating consequences for their social and... (more)
Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts
This new volume summarizes the current understanding of the autistic spectrum, from Asperger syndrome to autism. Written first and foremost as a guide for parents, but what is also certain to become... (more)
Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
By integrating modern psychoanalytic theory with the new findings of infant development and infant psychiatry , this book sheds new light on ways of understanding autistic, psychotic, and severely... (more)
Systemically Treating Autism: A Clinician's Guide for Empowering Families
Systemically Treating Autism provides a unique resource for family therapists and other mental health professionals who want to increase their understanding of families with children with autism... (more)
From Autism and Mutism to an Enlivened Self: A Case Narrative with Reflections on Early Development
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... (more)
The Creation of the Self and Language: Primitive Sensory Relations of the Child with the Outside World (+ DVD)
'This book, with its accompanying DVD, "NOW I AM A REAL KID" has made it possible for us to witness what David Rosenfeld’s treatment of Benjamin, a young boy with a diagnosis of autism, was actually... (more)
Autism in Childhood and Autistic Features in Adults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
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... (more)
Invisible Boundaries: Psychosis and Autism in Children and Adolescents
The chapters of this book are all written by experienced psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists and address different aspects of the psychotherapeutic treatment with psychotic children or... (more)
Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop
Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, this text outlines the developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children. It also... (more)
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach
Based on Dr Amitta Shah's 35 years of clinical and research experience, this practical book shows how to recognise and diagnose catatonia in people with autism. Written for professionals, friends and... (more)
Asperger's Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger’s, under the heading “autism spectrum disorder.” This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians.... (more)
Frances Tustin Today
Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the... (more)
A Parent's Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive: Second Edition
Packed with real-life stories and everyday problem-solving ideas, this book has given many tens of thousands of parents the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD),... (more)
Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Professional's Guide to Understanding, Preventing Issues, Supporting Sexuality and Responding to Inappropriate Behaviours
Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) require specialized teaching strategies when learning about puberty, sexuality and relationships. This professional resource offers... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.25: Autism
AUTISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Eric Laurent - Autism and psychosis: further dialogue with Robert and Rosine Lefort
Jean-Claude Maleval - Why the hypothesis of an autistic structure?
Eric Laurent -... (more)
Autistic States in Children: Second Edition
If the care of autistic children is to be humane, there should be an understanding of what lies behind their strange behaviour and their impassive faces - often masking intense states of terror. This... (more)
A Clinician’s Guide to Mental Health Conditions in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Interventions
This comprehensive and much-needed guide addresses the issues faced by clinicians in assessing and treating the range of mental health conditions, which can affect adults with Autism Spectrum... (more)
Gender Identity Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum
Bringing together a collection of narratives from those who are on the autism spectrum whilst also identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA), this... (more)
Teaching Theory of Mind: A Curriculum for Children with High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and Related Social Challenges
This book provides an innovative, easy-to-follow curriculum for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders to relate to and interact with others successfully by developing basic Theory of Mind... (more)
Know Your Spectrum!: An Autism Creative Writing Workbook for Teens
Not everyone with autism is the same. This workbook will help teenagers recognise their own individual spectrum of autistic behaviours, and reflect on the specific challenges they face, their own... (more)
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults: Clinical Intervention Methods and Technique
Psychoanalytic Work with Autistic Features in Adults deals with the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of working with patients with autistic residuals, formed in early life experiences that... (more)
Asperger Syndrome and Adults... Is Anyone Listening?: Essays and Poems by Spouses, Partners and Parents of Adults with Asperger Syndrome
The emotional problems experienced by those close to adults with Asperger's Syndrome are often over-looked. Focusing on the Cassandra phenomenon, this volume gathers letters, thoughts and poems to... (more)