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Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism – genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the impression of an ‘epidemic’. Many parents of…
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Childhood Autism

A Clinician's Guide to Early Diagnosis and Integrated Treatment

By Jennifer Hillman, Stephen Snyder and James Neubrander.

Published February 2007

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 options and goals, interdisciplinary insights, and available resources. Empirical research findings…
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Behavior Analysis Around the World

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

Edited by Rubén Ardila.

Published December 2006

Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology. It is based on laboratory research and in conceptualizations from distinguished figures of the discipline, such as Skinner, Pavlov, Mach, and even Watson and Thorndike. It has generated a science (the…
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Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Special Issue of Child Neuropsychology

Edited by Natacha Akshoomoff.

Published November 2006

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 skills and various restricted and repetitive behaviors. This variability presents challenges for developmental and…
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To Hold and Be Held

The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment

By Daniel K. Reinstein.

Published May 2006

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 of the ‘holding environment’ and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor…
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Families Coping with Mental Illness

Stories from the US and Japan

By Yuko Kawanishi.

Published December 2005

When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. Families Coping with Mental…
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Imagining Animals

Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

By Caroline Case.

Published July 2005

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 the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind…
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Being Alive

Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez

By Judith Edwards.
Foreword by Victoria Hamilton.

Published November 2001

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 children has been important internationally. This book:* brings together assessment of the influence of Alvarez's work across a…
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