A depiction of one analyst's efforts to receive and respond to the vivid impressions of raw and sometimes unmentalized experiences, as highlighted in the therapeutic relationship. This book integrates the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Tustin.

This volume consists of a series of essays, initially inspired over thirty years ago by Freud's paper on Gradiva -- -she who steps along.-

In the story of Gradiva, a young archaeologist, Norbert Hanold, suffers from delusions and is able to unravel the mysteries of his emotional life and mind with the aid of a woman who does not challenge these delusions, but rather -steps along- with Hanold, gradually helping him to disentangle truth from fantasy through what Freud called -cure by love-. Gradiva, originally felt to be the source of Hanold's malady, eventually becomes the agent of...

Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the 'proto-mental' area of the psyche-soma. Through detailed clinical contributions of several of her exponents worldwide, this book demonstrates how her ideas -- rooted in decades of work with children on the autistic spectrum -- have influenced and are being expanded, extended and applied to the treatment of ordinary patients from early childhood through adulthood.

The contributors to this volume...

Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which Tustin's work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the 'proto-mental' area of the psyche-soma. Through detailed clinical contributions of several of her exponents worldwide, this book demonstrates how her ideas -- rooted in decades of work with children on the autistic spectrum -- have influenced and are being expanded, extended and applied to the treatment of ordinary patients from early childhood through adulthood.

The contributors to this volume...