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demic, or socialand various other symptoms. Such an approach, of course, might require an integrated interdisciplinary model.
Since the capacity to relate in general can be defined on a
spectrum (from no ability to relate at one end to well-related
at the other), one can observe clinically many situations in
which a psychodynamic approach could address the potential conflicted origins of certain social aversion, even in a
child who is diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome. Such an
aversion may be the childs defensive retreat from an anxietyfilled state when attempting social interactions.
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