The therapeutic writing of the autistic writer Tito Mukhopadhyay

Authors

  • Marina Bialer Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i2p390-411

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, autism, body

Abstract

This paper analyzes the texts written by Tito Mukhopadhyay, autistic-writer, which are portraits of his struggle to liberate himself from the autistic isolation, adressing mirroring and identification with imaginary doubles as pillars of the constitution of an image of self-body in autism. The invention of Tito's writtings portrays the therapeutic effects of writing, highlighting its importance as a major tool for (self-)treatment in autism, giving us clues about the conditions, which make possible leaving the autistic isolation, through those various created strategies that, with a relative effectiveness, allow him to keep his pseudopods extended towards others.

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Published

2016-08-01

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How to Cite

Bialer, M. (2016). The therapeutic writing of the autistic writer Tito Mukhopadhyay. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 21(2), 390-411. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v21i2p390-411