Autism in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Dr Leon Brenner

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Leon Brenner’s book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Bestseller in Palgrave psychology for 2021) makes a compelling case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism. Counter to both the cognitive and identitarian approaches to the autism, Brenner rigorously theorizes autism as a unique subjective structure and mode of access to language that sits alongside the classical Freudian structures of psychosis, neurosis, and perversion. In this talk we will engage with Brenner’s latest work in the field of autism research. Particularly, we will talk about the importance of language for autistic people and the inventive ways they implement it in treating their suffering and finding more satisfaction and freedom in their lives.

Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a psychoanalytic theorist and psychological counselor from Berlin. Brenner’s work draws from the Freudian and Lacanian traditions of psychoanalysis, and his interest lies in the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. His book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, is a bestseller in psychology in Palgrave/Springer publishing in 2021. He is a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin and Unconscious Berlin and is currently a research fellow at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin and the Hans Kilian und Lotte Köhler Centrum (KKC).