Book review : Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop by Anne Alvarez and Susan Reid, Eds. London, Routledge, 1999. 273 pp, ISBN 0-415-14601-1

Wilson, Charlotte (2011) Book review : Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop by Anne Alvarez and Susan Reid, Eds. London, Routledge, 1999. 273 pp, ISBN 0-415-14601-1. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 10 (1). pp. 74-75. ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

This collection of essays considers autism from a psychodynamic perspective, and makes a rare but welcome link between ideas around attachment and resilience and autistic spectrum disorder. It does this through the authors' reflections on their work in the Autism Workshop of the Tavistock Clinic, provided through numerous case vignettes.