With investigative groups running independent of each other, the major goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to theories of autism, including results of major studies of behavior within the context of a biological explanation of autism. Two opposing theoretical systems are compared-psychoanalytic theory and modern evolutionary theory-and the latter, a biological approach to personality theory is confirmed. By appreciating the part played by heredity and the environment, this book offers a fresh and insightful understanding of autism. It reads as a thorough overview and history of the literature and thinking on the subject of autism over the past 40 years. Contents: Rethinking Theories of Autism; Defining Autism; An Evolutionary View of Personality Development; Piaget's Analysis of Intelligence; Language and Thought in Autism; Aphasias and Autism; Human-Figure Drawing as a Projection of Autistic Experience; and Theoretical Bases of Treatments. Includes illustrations.
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Piaget's stages of develoment are described in Theories of Autism, with an interesting explanation of how an autistic child's mental development is blocked at the end of the sensorimotor period because of the failure of language to develop.>>>>
These three books on autism offer much information and many points to consider....>>>>
Seifert's Theories of Autism is not an overview of existing theories of autism as the title might lead readers to suppose; rather, this book is much more interesting, because it details Seifert's development of a comprehensive, biosocial theory of autism.>>>
These three books on autism offer much information and many points to consider....>>>>
Seifert's Theories of Autism is not an overview of existing theories of autism as the title might lead readers to suppose; rather, this book is much more interesting, because it details Seifert's development of a comprehensive, biosocial theory of autism.>>>
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Cheryl D. Seifert, Ph.D. is Coordinator for Special Child Therapy Programs at the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Research Center.
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