1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158569303321

Autore

Bertolini Roberto

Titolo

What to do if the mind does not develop : a psychoanalytic study of pervasive developmental disorders / / Roberto Bertolini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

9780429923890

0429923899

9780429909665

0429909667

9780429484896

0429484895

9781782415824

1782415823

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 274 pages)

Disciplina

618.928588

Soggetti

Autistic children

Child psychology

Developmental disabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in Italian as Che fare se la mente non nasce: uno studio psicoanalitco dei distubri pervasivi dello sviluppo by Bruno Mondadori in 2015"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

part, I Method of Enquiry -- chapter Introduction to Part I -- On psychoanalytic psychotherapy with patients suffering from pervasive developmental disorders / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter One The mind model of child psychoanalysis in clinical work with children / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Two An example of psychoanalytic consultation with children: the clinical case of Carlotta (C) / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Three The eyes and the mind (1): on the observational processes in clinical work with children / Roberto Bertolini -- part, II Clinical Findings -- chapter Four What can be done if the mind does not develop? Encountering bi-dimensionality and absence of meaning while working with child and adolescent psychotics* / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Five Is it possible to interpret autistic material in the way we



interpret dreams? / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Six Thomas (T), the child trapped in a “deaf and dumb” Pinocchio-like body: in between a disembodied mind and a dehumanised body / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Seven Suzanne (S), a Goldilocks-like spiteful little girl: the growth of a new concept of self through the birth of imagination / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Eight Rebecca (Re), the child kissed by the Snow Queen: lifeline and perspective as symbolic forms / Roberto Bertolini -- part, III Implications -- chapter Nine The eyes and the mind (2): the exercise of knowing the self and the other / Roberto Bertolini -- chapter Ten In the clearing of being: the difficult discovery of shared meanings in the process of weaning from therapy in a patient suffering from pervasive developmental disorder / Roberto Bertolini.