Description
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. The authors consider, from the Lacanian perspective, the hypothesis of the biological-genetic causality of autism, as well as the claims of these approaches to offer effective therapy. These discussions are historically contextualised by an introduction and afterword that also provide pointers and references to further reading on Lacanian approaches to autism.
Illustrated throughout by clinical examples, 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.
Table of Contents
1. Autism in the neoliberal age Jacques Hochmann 2. The lessons of autism Leonardo Rodriguez 3. Like the monotone voice of the gusle: Some reflections on autism Graciela Prieto 4. Autists, practitioners and institutions: The abuse of reductionism Jean-Pierre Drapier 5. A psychoanalyst in the land of ABA Marie-Dominique Amy 6. Psychoanalysis for autisms Patrick Landman 7. Diagnosing and educating autistic children today Iván Ruiz and Neus Carbonell 8. Autism in France Pierre-Henri Castel 9. High-functioning autism and the behaviourist ideology Yann Diener
