This book outlines new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children and includes case studies to illustrate the theoretical ideas emerging from the Workshop.

Alvarez, Reid, Introduction: Autism, Personality and the Family. Reid, The Assessment of the Child with Autism: A Family Perspective. Klauber, The Significance of Trauma and other Factors in Work with the Parents of Children with Autism. Alvarez, Addressing the Deficit: Developmentally Informed Psychotherapy with Passive, 'Undrawn' Children. Alvarez, Disorder, Deviance and Personality: Factors in the Persistence and Modifiability of Autism. Rhode, Echo or Answer? The Move Towards Ordinary Speech in Three Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Reid, Autism and Trauma: Autistic Post Traumatic Developmental Disorder. Reid, Catherine: The Wind Beneath my Wings: The Importance of Hope. Bartram, Sean: From Solitary Invulnerability to the Beginnings of Reciprocity at Very Early Infantile Levels. Pecotic, Edward: Lost and Found: From Passive Withdrawal to Symbolic Functioning. Hanson, Conor: Hold on or You'll Fall: The Struggle to Become an Ordinary Boy. Pundik, Carmen: Despot or Subject: The Discovery of Beauty in a Wilful, Passionate Child. Youell, Matthew: From Numbers to Numeracy: From Knowledge to Knowing in a Ten Year Old Boy with Asperger's Syndrome. Bungener, Becky: Motive in her Mindlessness: the Discovery of Autistic Features in a Learning Disabled Adolescent. Klauber, Warren: From Passive and Sensuous Compliance to a More Lively Independence: Limited Therapeutic Objectives with a Verbal Adolescent. Edwards, Joe: Toward Solid Ground: A Request for a Second Course of Psychotherapy in an Adolescent. Alvarez, Reid, Endpiece.