The Effect of Extreme Passivity Imposed on a Boy in Early Childhood

Pavenstedt, Eleanor

doi:10.1080/00797308.1956.11822795

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“…For a comparison, Bettelheim gives the following description of the nonbreastfeeding mother who is affectively attuned and responsive to their infant’s needs (taken from Pavenstedt, 1956):Mother … gives him the bottle … she lays him down, drinking, and proceeds to lie down beside him. … While he drinks, she holds the bottle and looks directly into his eyes—it looks almost hypnotic.…”

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Humanizing autism research and treatment: Facilitating individuation through person-centered therapy.

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Purvis

2023

The Humanistic Psychologist

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the authors describe autism spectrum disorder as the failure to individuate. In each of these examples, autism is described as a normal period of development common to all infants, but from which autistic children never emerge. Individuation, which occurs after the autistic period, can only occur on the basis of a problem that the infant must resolve on their own. Failure to individuate also means a failure to develop the abstract attitudethat is, to use and understand symbolic language, as it may be seen in adults with advanced psychosis (Prouty, 1976(Prouty, , 2007. The treatment of autism begins with counseling the person through the individuation process. Carl Rogers's person-centered therapy, which includes affective contact and the opportunity for the person to develop autonomy, is given as an example.

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