Treating Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Tami Pollak is a therapist and clinical supervisor, both in the private and public sector. She teaches in the Psychotherapy Program at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and in Winnicott center, Israel.

Contributors

Preface

Constitutional History

1 Theoretical background: the experience of the autistic child and the transition towards a post-autistic organization

TAMI POLLAK

2 The structure of the multi-professional therapeutic response for preschool-age children with autism

PAM YOGEV-PLATEK

3 ‘I’m not moving, don’t you move!’ Treating a child with an organic disorder and autistic defenses – an integrative case study

ORLY SHALEV

4 In the beginning was the Word? Some theoretical and technical considerations in working with ASD children – a case discussion

JOSHUA DURBAN

5 The body-schema and the development of the self

TAMAR MEIDAN AND KAREN PELEG

6 Thoughts on diaper weaning and its contribution to the development of the self in ASD children

LIMOR MONTAL AND YAEL EITAN

7 The autistic constitution and its impact on the disruption of parental functioning

HILIT BECHOR COHEN AND HADAS BENARI LIVNY

8 In spite of and because of words

TAMAR ASSAL AND PAZIT GUR

9 The consulting room – the structure, texture and beauty of the object as a path for the development of primal psycho-physical space

TAMI POLLAK

10 Dimensions of (non-)space and the autistic state

EDNA LAHAV

11 The multi-aged child

NECHAMA FABER BEN PAZI

Bibliography

Index