Epilogue: The Interpersonal World of the Autistic Infant, Part 2: Modes of Treatment

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Daniel S. Posner, M.D.

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¹ As a burgeoning first-person literature has shown, autism’s sensory-motor-affective challenges to social interaction may be compensated for over the course of a lifetime, i.e. in developmental time – ironically, by over-relying on theory-of-mind and inference – but they endure in real-time and require life-long accommodations.

² Interestingly, many autistic adults report that social interactions with other autistics are more navigable and unfold more smoothly than they do with neurotypicals.

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Daniel S. Posner

Daniel S. Posner, M.D., is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital System in New York City where he teaches and supervises residents in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Psychoanalysis, Self and Context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan.