Autistic States in Children (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Frances Tustin (1913-1994) was one of the first professionally trained child psychotherapists in Britain. Although internationally recognised for her pioneering therapeutic work with autistic children, her approach is considered by some to be controversial, as her psychogenic view of childhood autism challenged the belief that it is biological and genetic.

Autistic States in Children is widely regarded as a vitally important work for understanding the causes of autism in young children. Vividly describing her clinical encounters with autistic children, Tustin argued that autistic states were above all self-protective ones. In her observational studies, she noted how autistic children's interaction with physical objects, such as keys, toy cars, or other play items, had a rigid and ritualistic quality, far removed from the typical kind of fantasy play seen in other children. Such objects are not used by autistic children for their intended purpose, Tustin argued, but rather in sensation-dominated ways that interfere with mental development. She also drew a fundamental distinction between two autistic groups: an ‘encapsulated’ group, which is withdrawn and non-verbal, and an ‘entangled’ group, who are hyperactive and chaotic but have some language.

Autistic States in Children influenced not only those in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis but countless others who have contact with autistic children, especially families, and remains essential reading for anyone seeking a creative and compelling understanding of autism.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Maria Rhode.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Maria Rhode

Introduction

1. Observational studies of autistic children: the sort of children this book is about

2. Revised understandings of the aetiology of psychogenic autism

Part 1: Childhood psychosis

3. Theoretical aspects of childhood psychosis

4. Auto-sensuous aspects of childhood psychosis

5. Autogenerated encapsulation

6. Confusional entanglement

7. Auto-sensousness as a basis for classification of childhood psychosis

Part 2: Psychodynamics and treatment of autistic states

8. The pathological operation of auto-sensuouness

9. Psychological birth and psychological catastrophe

10. Autistic objects

11. Confusional objects

12. The asymbolic nature of auto-sensuous states

13. Awareness in autistic states

14. Psychotherapy with autistic states in children

15. Transference phenomena in autistic states

Part 3: Clinical studies

16. Sam

17. 'Thinkings'

18. The struggles of an autistic child to develop a mind of his own

19. Autistic elements in neurotic disorders of childhood

Concluding Remarks.

Afterword

References

Name Index

Subject Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Classics
Release date:	March 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Frances Tustin
Foreword by:	Maria Rhode
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	306
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-54086-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Promotions
LSN:	0-367-54086-X
Barcode:	9780367540869

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