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This is a collection of seminal and more recent papers on a psychoanalytic understanding of childhood autism and also the autistic features of adult patients. It is thought to be the first collection published in this country to include work with childhood autism and these features in certain adults.
Child and also adult psychotherapists are offered a rich resource of extensive, integrated clinical and theoretical material to access and think about in relation to some of their own patients whom they may not have thought about as exhibiting autistic features. It is not possible to mention all the authors in this review.
In the introduction Kate Barrows makes reference to additional significant papers including the work of Melanie Klein (1930) and Donald Meltzer and his colleagues (p. 17). Klein's paper is the first account of the psychoanalytic treatment of an autistic child and is recognized as a landmark in the