TY - JOUR A1 - Cashin, A. T1 - Painting the vortex: The existential structure of the experience of parenting a child with autism T2 - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Basingstoke (Routledge – Taylor and Francis) Vol. 13 (No. 3, 2004), pp. 164-174. N2 - The experience of parenting a child with autism is one of change to the parent's self. The associated triad of impairment in autism of impaired communication, social skills and a repetitive way of being permeates into the self of the parent through the medium of the social parent child relationship. This is a progressive process likened to the parent being pulled into a vortex. The existential mechanisms through which this may plausibly occur are considered. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6854 ER -