Autistic Barriers in Neurotic Patients

ISBN-13: 9780946439256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 350 str.

Frances Tustin

Opis

Tustin] deals very sensitively and sensibly with the knotty problem of parents' contribution to autistic development, providing a balanced interactive view which does not allocate blame. Her discussion of autistic objects and autistic shapes is illuminating and has widespread clinical applicability. This book is highly recommended reading - Mary Boston, British Journal of Medical Psychology.

Spis treści

Foreword, Preface , Introduction , Psychogenic Autism , The nature of psychogenic autism: an overview , The growth of understanding : a personal statement , Thoughts on psychogenic autism with special reference to a paper by Melanie Klein , A significant element in the development of psychogenic autism , Situations which may precipitate psychogenic autism , Autistic objects , Autistic shapes exemplified in childhood psychopathology , Autistic shapes exemplified in adult psychopathology , Shapes associated with emergence from psychogenic autism , A glimpse into the world of an autistic child , Psychogenic autism in neurotic patients , Falling , Spilling and dissolving , The development of ‘I-ness’ , Anorexia nervosa in an adolescent girl , The rhythm of safety , Psychotherapy with psychogenic autistic states , Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Frances Tustin