The Psychotherapy for the Clients with Pervasive Developmental Disorder from the Viewpoint of Their Outer and Inner Framing of the Body : Their Establishing a Relationship with Others and Their Developmental Support

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to give an account of the author's experience of psychotherapy for the clients with pervasive developmental disorder (hereafter cited as autism), so as to suggest a new direction in therapeutic intervention with autism. I have paid attention to the Frequency in which the clients create frames in our play therapy. My case studies lead me to the conclusion that creating frames is connected with the acquisition of their body image. I have arrived at the conclusion of the importance of their establishing a relationship with the others and the developmental changes that can be caused by therapists who should pay closer attention to theframefunctioning as the body in the autism.