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The Need to Connect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2007

Bonny J. Forrest
Bonny J. Forrest
Affiliation:
Loyola College in Maryland and Independent Practice, Washington, DC and Bethesda, MD
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Autism: A Neurological Disorder of Early Brain Development. Roberto Tuchman and Isabelle Rapin (Eds.). 2006. London, England: Mac Keith Press for the International Child Neurology Association, 354 pp., $115.00/£65.00.

Historically, the need or drive to connect to other humans is absent from the instincts that Freud considered fundamental to all humans, and from the work of Charles Darwin (1965), who heavily influenced Freud. Despite the fact that Darwin's last major publication focused on the expression of emotion in humans and animals, neither major theorist, both critical to the development of psychology, gave a place in their theories to the desire to connect to others. Yet new research consistently points to a desire for social connection in all of us and in our closest relatives on the evolutionary chain. When social relatedness is impaired, the results are devastating, and nowhere is this devastation more apparent than in a child with autism, the subject of this multi-authored volume.

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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , May 2007 , pp. 555 - 556
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© 2007 The International Neuropsychological Society

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