Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Arena

Childhood Autism

A Clinician's Guide to Early Diagnosis and Integrated Treatment

• By Jennifer Hillman, Stephen Snyder, James Neubrander

Childhood Autism provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment...

Published February 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Special Issue of Child Neuropsychology

• Edited by Natacha Akshoomoff

Children with autism spectrum disorders share a pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction skills but vary in their verbal and nonverbal communication...

Published November 2nd 2006 by Psychology Press.

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To Hold and Be Held

The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment

• By Daniel K. Reinstein

Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts...

Published May 19th 2006 by Routledge.

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Imagining Animals

Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

• By Caroline Case

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of...

Published July 21st 2005 by Routledge.

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Being Alive

Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez

• By Judith Edwards

This book is a celebration of the work of Anne Alvarez, an enormously influential psychoanalytic psychotherapist whose work on autism and severe personality disorders in...

Published November 22nd 2001 by Routledge.

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Autism and Personality

Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop

• Edited by Anne Alvarez, Susan Reid

Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, Autism and Personality outlines in considerable detail the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team...

Published June 17th 1999 by Routledge.

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The Handbook of Autism

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

• By Maureen Aarons, Tessa Gittens

This updated edition of the Handbook of Autism explores and expands on the practical and jargon free information of the best-selling first edition. The authors dispel many...

Published May 13th 1999 by Routledge.

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Acquiring a Conception of Mind

A Review of Psychological Research and Theory

• By Peter Mitchell

It seems the mind has evolved into such a powerful form that we are able to go beyond knowing the world and move towards knowing...

Published December 5th 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Loners

The Life Path of Unusual Children

• By Dr Sula Wolff, Sula Wolff

Some children seem different, detached, disinterested in the games of other children. They prefer their hobbies to friends of their own age and if forced...

Published August 17th 1995 by Routledge.

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Autism and the Development of Mind

• By R. Peter Hobson

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...

Published February 27th 1995 by Psychology Press.

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