Digby Tantam is Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Care Trust. He founded an Asperger Syndrome clinic in 1980, and has written numerous articles and books on autism spectrum disorders.

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder? is a fascinating existential volume, with numerous new concepts and terms that are most rewarding for both the curious reader, and the psychotherapist... The text is scholarly, most intelligible and interesting, very well referenced, and informs the existential practitioner in an admirably humane manner of all necessary dynamics. So, I can recommend this title to both the academic, and the interested public. This book is an authoritative, useful contribution to the study of ASD.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1: What is Nonverbal Communication, and How Does it Affect Us? 2: What is the Importance of Gaze and Shared Attention? 3: What do People Make of Nonverbal Communication? 4: What is the Evidence that Impaired Nonverbal Communication is the Fundamental Problem in Autistic Spectrum Disorder? 5: Is an Impairment of Nonverbal Communication a Brain Problem? 6: What are the Consequences of Lving with an Impairment in Nonverbal Communication? 7: Nonverbal Communication as a Tool to Understanding and Moving Forward. 8: Can Society Afford People with ASD? Revisited. References. Index.

Digby Tantam is Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Care Trust. He founded an Asperger Syndrome clinic in 1980, and has written numerous articles and books on autism spectrum disorders.

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder? is a fascinating existential volume, with numerous new concepts and terms that are most rewarding for both the curious reader, and the psychotherapist... The text is scholarly, most intelligible and interesting, very well referenced, and informs the existential practitioner in an admirably humane manner of all necessary dynamics. So, I can recommend this title to both the academic, and the interested public. This book is an authoritative, useful contribution to the study of ASD.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1: What is Nonverbal Communication, and How Does it Affect Us? 2: What is the Importance of Gaze and Shared Attention? 3: What do People Make of Nonverbal Communication? 4: What is the Evidence that Impaired Nonverbal Communication is the Fundamental Problem in Autistic Spectrum Disorder? 5: Is an Impairment of Nonverbal Communication a Brain Problem? 6: What are the Consequences of Lving with an Impairment in Nonverbal Communication? 7: Nonverbal Communication as a Tool to Understanding and Moving Forward. 8: Can Society Afford People with ASD? Revisited. References. Index.

Digby Tantam is Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist for Sheffield Care Trust. He founded an Asperger Syndrome clinic in 1980, and has written numerous articles and books on autism spectrum disorders.

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder? is a fascinating existential volume, with numerous new concepts and terms that are most rewarding for both the curious reader, and the psychotherapist... The text is scholarly, most intelligible and interesting, very well referenced, and informs the existential practitioner in an admirably humane manner of all necessary dynamics. So, I can recommend this title to both the academic, and the interested public. This book is an authoritative, useful contribution to the study of ASD.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1: What is Nonverbal Communication, and How Does it Affect Us? 2: What is the Importance of Gaze and Shared Attention? 3: What do People Make of Nonverbal Communication? 4: What is the Evidence that Impaired Nonverbal Communication is the Fundamental Problem in Autistic Spectrum Disorder? 5: Is an Impairment of Nonverbal Communication a Brain Problem? 6: What are the Consequences of Lving with an Impairment in Nonverbal Communication? 7: Nonverbal Communication as a Tool to Understanding and Moving Forward. 8: Can Society Afford People with ASD? Revisited. References. Index.