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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777683503321

Autore

Spensley Sheila <1931-, >

Titolo

Frances Tustin / / Sheila Spensley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-87237-2

1-134-87238-0

1-280-11373-1

9786610113736

0-203-97635-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Collana

The makers of modern psychotherapy

Disciplina

616.8914092

618.92/8982 B

Soggetti

Autism in children

Child analysis

Psychoanalysis

Psychoses in children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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