Asperger's Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Holloway, Robin

Mental Health

Routledge

On Music: Essays and Diversions

The composer Robin Holloway has established himself as one of the most penetrating music critics of our day,whose trenchant style and impassioned thinking guide us not only through the works of his contemporaries, but alsothrough the great masterpieces of Western Music.This remarkable collection of essays contains some of the most exciting and original analysis of the Wagner operasavailable in print. It also brings us sustained, meditative, and illuminating accounts of the masterpieces of theromantic era, and of the classical tradition from which they both derive. Holloway argues that music matters, thatthere is a real difference between good and bad, great and trivial, sincere and sentimental, and that our enjoymentcan only be enhanced by the habit of critical study.

Arts & Photography

Music

Bloomsbury Academic

Following the success of On Music; Essays and Diversions Vol I Robin Holloway's collection of writings covers a wealth of new ground. Containing substantial studies on Wagner, Strauss and Britten, the collection includes a fascinating piece on Edward Elgar which will be of great interest in the 150th anniversary of his birth. Shorter pieces cover individual composers and particular works as well as individuals and issues in musical life, as Holloway considers the Twentieth Century as a contradictory yet unified whole.
Gathered from a wealth of published and unpublished work, including the popular Spectator columns, Robin Holloway brings together some of his highly entertaining accounts of travelling around the world with his music; of travel in America and Europe, a kaleidescope of festivals and of life as Professor of Music at Cambridge University.

Essays and Diversions

Debussy and Wagner

E. Eulenburg

Da Capo Pr

The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger's, under the heading "autism spectrum disorder." This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians. Instead, finer diagnostic distinctions are helpful to clinicians who treat children with Asperger's. This book spells out in detail the psychodynamics the author has repeatedly uncovered in Asperger's children, adolescents, and adults, and explores the central factors in the aetiology of Asperger's Disorder. There is a section suggesting how Asperger's can be adequately diagnosed from "the outside" (using external descriptive features) and more importantly from "the inside" (based on internal psychodynamic processes). Finally, there is a section outlining psychodynamic treatment approaches to Asperger's children, based on their psychodynamics and on which type of Asperger's is present. The book includes numerous case illustrations to help the reader appreciate the central psychodynamics that are regularly observed in Asperger's children, namely splitting of the self into victim and bully aspects, and projective identification into remote objects.

This collection of essays contains some of the most exciting and original analyses of the Wagner operas from music critic and composer Robin Holloway, who is known for his trenchant style and impassioned thinking. These essays provide sustained, meditative, and illuminating accounts both of the masterpieces of the romantic era and of the classical tradition from which they derive. Holloway persuades listeners that music matters, that there is a real difference between good and bad, great and trivial, and sincere and sentimental, and that one's enjoyment can only be enhanced by the habit of critical study.

Literature & Fiction

Continuum Intl Pub Group

The Better Angels

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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