High-Functioning Autism: Changes over Fourteen Years of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Part Three

Registered Psychologist providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults in Toronto, Canada. Robin has two doctoral degrees. One is in educational theory and the other in developmental/clinical psychology. He is a graduate of CICAPP (The Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) for which he is now a supervisor and a teacher. Robin is in private practice at The Willow Centre in Toronto, Canada. At The Willow Centre, Robin has the privilege of working with a small group of like-minded clinicians where together we can discuss cases, and where he has had the unique opportunity of discussing aspects of this paper with his enormously helpful colleagues. Before joining his colleagues at The Willow Centre, Robin worked for over 20 years in the Child and Family Services department of a public hospital where he participated in weekly assessments of children referred for possible autism spectrum disorder. Inspired by this experience and by hearing Anne Alvarez speak about autism to a group of graduate psychoanalytic psychotherapists (the Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists), Robin went on to develop a special interest in children with autism and Asperger’s. This in turn has led to several publications, including this one. Robin is honoured to participate as a member of the Child Department of Psychoanalytic Education, ASD Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association.