Infantile Autism

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Introduction

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 1-3

3. Case Histories

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 4-44

4. Historical Approach to the Problem of Autism

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 45-50

5. Phenomenological-Anthropological Preconditions and Method of the Investigation

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 51-57

6. The Picture of the Autistic Child in the Pre-lingual Stage of Development

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 58-60

7. Language and World of Autistic Children

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 61-112

8. Summary and Concluding Remarks

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 113-118

9. The Concept and Nature of Infantile Autism

   • Gerhard Bosch

   Pages 119-120

10. Symptomatology

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 120-126

11. Differences between the Asperger and Kanner Syndromes

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 126-130

12. Etiology

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 130-140

13. Prognosis and Development of the Condition

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 140-144

14. Therapy

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 144-145

15. Summary

    • Gerhard Bosch

    Pages 145-146

16. Back Matter

    Pages 147-158

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Professor Bosch's study of infantile autism is a most valuable contribution to the slowly increasing body of knowledge about this baffling and most severe psychiatrie disorder of childhood. Reading it in the original German when it first appeared in 1962, I was greatly impressed by his deep sympathy for these unfortunate children and by his keen insight into the overt manifestations of a behavior which presents the observer with tantalizing riddles. Having spent nearly a lifetime in unravelling the meaning of the behavior of autistic children, I was much taken by Professor Bosch's very different approach to the same problem. His research sheds further light into the darkness that reigns in the mind of the autistic child. I am delighted that his important contribution is now easily available also to American readers. Everybody who works with children suffering from infantile autism for any length of time and also studies this disease, becomes impressed by how much their inability to relate and to resporrd appro"prrately can teach us about human psychology in general, and in particular how and why things go wrong in man's relations to his fellow man. All through his book, Professor Bosch correctly stresses that autistic behavior is neither asymptom nor a syndrome, but a unique form of breakdown in all inter­ personal relations.

• Syndrom
• autism
• psychiatry
• psychology
• stress
• syndromes

• Rheinische Landesklinik für Jugendpsychiatrie, University of Düsseldorf, Viersen-Süchteln, Deutschland

  Gerhard Bosch

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