Table of Contents
Part I: IntroductionAnna Chapter 1: From missing relationship at birth to missing name and language at age 5 Chapter 2: The four critical months before the 6th birthday: from learning her name to reading to learning to speak in 1000 hours Chapter 3: New life begins: discovering the world beyond Legos and puzzles 1992 Spring to 1993 Fall Chapter 4: Coming to America becomes a window to the world
Part II: Commentary on Two Remarkable Journeys – One Therapeutic for Dr. Diana Thielst and Anna; and One of Discovery for Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis; Section 1: The Recognition of Autism as a Developmental Disorder; Kanner’s Approach; A Comment on Terms; The Etiology of Early Infantile Autism; Two Other Experiences of Children with Autism; Gus: To Siri with Love: Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness Of Machines (Newman, J. 2017); Owen: Life Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism (Suskind, R., 2014); Interest and Purpose: Expanding the Scope of Being a Doer Doing Section 2: At Birth What Becomes Activated in Normal Development and Fails to Become Activated in Neonates with Autism; Comparing Adaptive Qualities and Capacities Normally Emerging in the First Year of Life with the More Limited Resources of the One-Year-Old Infant with Autism; Section 3: A Doer Doing and The Core Sense of Self; Infant-Mother Face to Face Interactions and the Development of Conversational Language; Faces – The Pathway to Intimacy; Inanimate Objects – The Pathway To Mastery; The Pathway to a Healthy Body, Physical Functioning, and Mind-Body Connection; Turning on to Human Relatedness; The Turn on of Adapting Infants; Early Steps that Unfold and Integrate in Adaptive Development