From Autism and Mutism to an Enlivened Self: A Case Narrative with Reflections on Early Development

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I:
Anna
Chapter 1: From missing relationship at birth to missing name
and language at age five
	Birth
	First year
	12 months
	24 months
	30 months
	36 months
	Her fourth birthday
	Her fifth birthday
Chapter 2: The four critical months before the sixth birthday:
from learning her name to reading and from reading
to learning to speak in 1000 hours
	Meeting with Dr. Traugott
	Meeting with a special educator and speech pathologist
specializing in minimally verbal children: more than
just a teaching program
	Back home
	Month No. 1, January 1992
	Month No. 2, February 1992
	Month No. 3, March 1992
	Month No. 4, April 1992
	Her sixth birthday
Chapter 3: New life begins: discovering the world beyond Legos
and puzzles, 1992 spring to 1993 fall
	What changed during the first four months of highly
intensive multi-intervention?
	From reading to speaking
	Discovering that sounds in the environment have meaning
	Visiting the art gallery
	Math
	Math and language in public
	Puzzling interpretation of her nonverbal IQ score of
146 by a child psychiatrist
	Her seventh birthday
	Introducing social development and independence: going
to school together with typically developing peers
	Existing speech enables her to start
speech therapy
	How a library becomes her favorite place to spend
time after school
Chapter 4: Coming to America becomes a window to the world
	Middle school
	High school
	University and beyond
	Anna about her early memories
	What can professionals and parents learn from the
developmental trajectory of my daughter?
PART II:
Commentary on two remarkable journeys:
one therapeutic for Dr. Diana Thielst and Anna;
and one of discovery for psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Chapter 5: 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
	Interest and purpose: expanding the scope of being
a doer doing
Chapter 6: 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
Chapter 7: 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
References
Index