Table of Contents

Preface — 1. Prolegomena — Introduction — The Autistic Individual — The Interpersonal Domain — Self and Other — The Capacity to Symbolise — Explaining Autism — The Perspective of Developmental Psychopathology — 2. The Picture of Autism — The Earliest Years — The Cardinal Features of Autism — Beyond Childhood — Autism “From the Inside” — 3. Interpersonal R elatedness I: The Norm al Infant — Early Personal Relatedness — Capacities for Social Perception — The Development of Self — Overview — 4. Interpersonal R elatedness II: The Case of Autism — Interpersonal Relatedness and Relationships — Imitation — Attachment — Self-development — Conclusion — 5. The Growth of Interpersonal Understanding — “Explicit” Interpersonal Understanding in Normal — Development — The Case of Autism — Conclusion — 6. Conceptual Issues I: On Understanding Minds — “Theory of Mind” — What it Means to Understand “Belief' — Bodies and Minds — Persons and Selves — The Emotional Origins of Psychological Understanding — 7. Conceptual Issues II: On Thought and Language — The Nature of Thinking — Perceiving, Acting, and Feeling — The Nature of Symbolic Functioning — Developing the Capacity to Symbolise — The Interpersonal Origins of Symbolic Functioning — Communication and Language — Recapitulation — 8. Thought and Language: The Case of Autism — A Clinical Example — A Theoretical Perspective — The Capacity to Symbolise — Language — Analysing Communication — Cognition Revisited — 9. The Development of Mind and the Case of Autism — The Normal Development of Mind — The Theoretical — Challenge — A Theory of Development — The Case of Autism — Congenital Blindness — Epilogue — References — Author index — Subject index.