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“Playful” therapy: working with autism and trauma
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In this article, a psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be a helpful form of treatment for certain autistic children, and some of the misconceptions surrounding this kind of treatment are discussed.Abstract:
This paper proposes that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be a helpful form of treatment for certain autistic children. Some of the misconceptions surrounding this kind of treatment are discussed. The literature identifying a particular sub‐group of autistic children is then reviewed and the characteristics of this group, and the relationship of their difficulties to early trauma, are described. Using clinical material from work with a child who probably fell within this sub‐group, and who had very marked autistic features, the paper illustrates the importance of the therapist taking an active role in the therapy and how this helped the child to emerge from his withdrawn state. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of introducing themes of aggression, and of this being done in a playful way. The impact of trauma on children's development, with particular reference to the acquisition of language, is considered. The role of sibling rivalry as a factor is emphasised.read more
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Memory and therapeutic action
TL;DR: The authors' answer is that this cardinal feature of psychoanalytic identity cannot be justified in the face of neuropsychological research revealing memory as a series of different systems and distinguishing between the content and the modes of remembrance.
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Therapeutic Work with Trauma, Revictimization, and Perpetration: Bearing Witness, Offering Hope, Embracing Despair
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a survivor of childhood incest who in adulthood has become a victim of violence in her relationships with chosen partners and is concerned that she herself may be a perpetrator of sexual abuse is presented.
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Puppets in the playroom: Utilizing puppets and child-centered facilitative skills as a metaphor for healing.
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Relationship building during the initial phase of social work intervention with child clients in a rural area
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the experiences of social workers and child clients regarding their initial contact-making in a rural Boland area and found that the rationale for relationship building, contextual factors, barriers to relationship building and the importance of the social worker's professional attributes.
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Relationship building during the initial phase of social work intervention with child clients in farm communities in the Boland district
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors qualitatively explored through semi-structured interviewing the experiences of social workers and child clients regarding their initial contact-making in rural farming communities through a case study design.
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The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
TL;DR: In this paper, the ego wards off unpleasure and anxiety, and exercises control over impulsive behavior, affects, and instinctive urges, in psychoanalytic psychology.
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Severe impairments of social interaction and associated abnormalities in children : epidemiology and classification
Lorna Wing,Judith Gould +1 more
TL;DR: The prevalence, in children aged under 15, of severe impairments of social interaction, language abnormalities, and repetitive stereotyped behaviors was investigated in an area of London, and a system of classification based on quality ofsocial interaction was considered.
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Notes on some schizoid mechanisms.
TL;DR: The first few months of life anxiety is predominantly experienced as fear of persecution and that this contributes to certain mechanisms and defenses which characterize the paranoid and schizoid positions as mentioned in this paper, which are part of normal development and at the same time form the basis for later schizophrenic illness.
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Infant intersubjectivity: research, theory, and clinical applications.
TL;DR: In this paper, the emergence and development of active "self-and-other" awareness in infancy is examined and the importance of its motives and emotions to mental health practice with children.