Drawing together an international range of psychoanalytic practitioners, this collection provides a critique of mainstream models of autism, looking at the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of the behavioural and cognitive approaches popular today. The first book to provide a psychoanalytic unpacking of standard non-analytic approaches, it offers a series of critical essays on mainstream assumptions, examining their history, foundations, and validity from a variety of angles.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Critique: Offers a critique of mainstream models of autism.
- Psychoanalytic Perspective: The first book to unpack standard non-analytic approaches from a psychoanalytic viewpoint.
- Variety of Angles: Examines the history, foundations, and validity of mainstream assumptions.
- Lacanian Approach: Discusses the biological-genetic causality hypothesis of autism.
- Clinical Examples: Illustrated throughout with clinical examples.
Additional Information
These discussions are historically contextualised by an introduction and afterword that also provide pointers and references to further reading on Lacanian approaches to autism. Treating Autism Today will be of interest to Lacanian clinicians and scholars, as well as psychotherapists, psychologists, and those working with children diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.
