Arctic Spring: Potential for Growth in Adults with Psychosis and Autism

by Laura Tremelloni

Overview

In this book, the author compares the characteristics of autistic child psychotherapies and those of the adult cases illustrated. She describes clinical cases to show the development of analysis, which was long and complex due to the underlying difficulties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753143
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/06/2005
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laura Tremelloni was born in Milan where she obtained her degree in medicine with a specialization in Psychiatry. She began her post-doctoral training at the Milan University Hospital in internal medicine and subsequently worked in child and adult psychiatry. She is a founding member of the "Centro Internazionale Studi Psicodinamici della Personalita" based in Venice where lessons, seminars, meetings are held regularly especially in the area of infantile autism and psychosis. She has a private practice in Milan as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and worked particularly with autistic children and psychotic patients.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Subject of Confidentiality — Preface — Introduction — Theoretical Aspects — Autistic capsules in adults — Vicissitudes of the transference in work with autistic adults and children — Countertransference: an overview — Use of countertransference in patients with autistic capsules — Working with adult patients with autistic capsules: obstacles to treatment — Therapeutic factors in the treatment of patients with autistic cores — Case Studies — Elisa — Irene — Ambra — Renzo — Concluding remarks