Webinar: IPA in Health Presents -
Building Connections: The Treatment of ASD, Autism Related Disorders, and Autistic States Over the Lifespan
September 21st , 2024. 11am to 2pm EST
This webinar will be in English.
In recent years, the vast importance of helping people with ASD develop positive social connections has become more widely appreciated. This webinar will briefly describe an integrative model of ASD, including autistic states, as a neurobiological disorder with psychological consequences. A central pathological development includes psychological structures which interfere with the growth of positive social connections. The importance of emotional regulation in developing the ability to assimilate the care provided by others will be discussed. Psychoanalytic work with patients from early childhood to adulthood will demonstrate various ways to help our patients develop caring connections.
The webinar will feature distinguished panellists: William Singletary, MD. Timothy Rice MD, Alexandra Harrison MD, Vera Regina J.R.M. Fonseca, Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P.
Organiser, Panellist and Moderator for this webinar will be William Singletary MD, who will introduce the model and facilitate the discussion between the panellists and the audience.
Click here for the Bibliography of Psychoanalytic Papers on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Presentations
Integrative model of ASD (William Singletary, MD)
Emphasizes the basic similarities among patients with ASD and autistic states and focuses on internal psychological processes and structures which promote the development and maintenance of negative social connections. Contrasting positive psychological processes and structures will be presented as goals for therapy.
Promoting emotion regulation development in emerging adults with ASDs through defence analysis (Timothy Rice, MD)
Presents a theoretical background and clinical vignettes in support of positioning defence interpretation within the context of Alvarez’s three levels of analytic communication as a psychoanalytic tool to advance emotional regulation capacities among emerging adults with ASDs.
Finding specific fittedness within dyssynchrony: the analysis of a 7-yo boy (Alexandra Harrison, MD)
Emphasises the value of videotape microanalysis to study the messy, moment-to-moment making of a connection, the importance of nonverbal behavioural cues to create psychological safety, and the scaffolding of symbolic capacity in the context of an evolving reciprocal relationship.
Building bridges with autistic patients: intimacy and projective identification (Vera Regina J.R.M. Fonseca, MD, PhD)
Tackles the great difficulties an analyst may face when trying to connect to her autistic patients on a deeper emotional level, due to the nondevelopment of mental and interactional space. How to build bridges if there is nowhere to anchor them and no space to cross?
Developments in the growth of a mind: the sense of otherness, the use of the conditional tense and the struggle against autism (Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P)
Uses material from her patient Robbie, in his 20s and 30s and will discuss the delay in the development of a normal capacity to play and also his attempts to reduce his repetitive preoccupations as he began to understand their destructive power over his mind.
Discussion among audience and panelists .
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