Long description
A volume of the renowned Tavistock Clinic Series, this pioneering multidisciplinary collection of papers addresses the issue of variation within the diagnostic category of Asperger's Syndrome. It will be of interest to mental health professionals, teachers, parents, and all those working with Asperger's Syndrome.
Review
'This remarkable compendium reviews the history and contemporary views of the diagnosis and treatment of Asperger's syndrome, on the way dispelling the mistaken climate of blame and the current false oppositions between brain and mind. The authors support a multi-disciplinary approach to this condition, about which much has still to be discovered. Case histories of children, young people and adults helped by psychoanalytic psychotherapy contribute clinical evidence of their wide range of individual differences, their inner sufferings and protective strategies, their limits and their potential. This is a book for parents, teachers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists -- indeed all who live or work with those affected by Asperger's syndrome.' -- Edna O'Shaughnessy