Frances Tustin / Sheila Spensley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spensley, Sheila, 1931-

Series:

Makers of modern psychotherapy.

The makers of modern psychotherapy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tustin, Frances.

Autism in children.

Child analysis.

Psychoanalysis--Biography.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoses in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frances Tustin describes the life and clarifies the work of an outstanding clinician whose understanding of autistic and psychotic children has brilliantly illuminated the relationship between autism and psychosis for others in the field. Sheila Spensley defines Tustin's position in traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and explains how it is related to work in infant psychiatry and developmental psychology. She makes Tustin's original concepts accessible to the non-specialist reader and shows how relevant they are to work in other areas such as learning disability and wo

Contents:

Cover; Frances Tustin; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Growing up in the bosom of the church; Chapter 2 Professional development; Chapter 3 The discovery of autism and the search to understand it; Chapter 4 Unnatural children; Chapter 5 Encapsulation and entanglement; Chapter 6 Mental cataclysm and black holes; Chapter 7 The frontiers of consciousness; Chapter 8 Of objects: concrete, sensory and transitional; Chapter 9 The keeper of the keys; Chapter 10 Mental handicap and mental illness; Chapter 11 Psychoanalytic perspectives on learning impairment

Chapter 12 The restoration of godGlossary; Chronology; Publications by Frances Tustin; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-87237-2

1-134-87238-0

1-280-11373-1

9786610113736

0-203-97635-5

9780203976357

OCLC:

437153383