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.

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Cover
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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Treating autism today: Lacanian perspectives
1. Autism in the neoliberal age: Some reflections
2. The lessons of autism
3. Like the monotonous voice of the gusle: Some reflections on autism
4. Autists, practitioners, and institutions: The abuse of reductionism
5. A psychoanalyst in the land of ABA
6. Psychoanalysis for autisms
7. Diagnosing and educating autistic: children today
8. Autism: The French debate
9. High-functioning autism and the ideology of behaviorism
Afterword: What is the place of psychoanalysis in the treatment of autism today?
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