Autism and Childhood Psychosis

Frances Tustin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781855751101
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429911125
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis. In it, she tackles problems of diagnosis as these relate to therapeutic intervention. Autism and Childhood Psychosis was first published in 1972 by Hogarth, London, and a year later by Jason Aronson, New York. Subsequently, it was translated and published in France, Italy, Brazil and Argentina, where it is now in its third edition. In France, it is a livre de poche. Twenty years ago, the book was greeted by a group of Italian therapists working at a unit for psychotic children at the Institute of Childhood Neuropsychiatry, Rome University, as "a ship coming into harbor bearing precious cargo". Here was a theoretical model that provided an anchor for therapists bewildered by the array of bizarre behaviors that seemed to defy scientific explanation and human intervention.

Index

By Lilian Rubin, M.A.

Note: An asterisk denotes a mention in the list of References. Names in italics refer to children whose behaviour is discussed.

abnormal primary autism (A.P.A.) 69–75

comparison with E.S.A. and R.S.A. (q.v.) 85–88

differential features (Chart II) 96–101

distinction between people and things 79

gross lack of essential nurturing 70–71

impediments in the child 73–75

partial lack of essential nurturing 71–73

precipitating factors (Chart II) 92–95

as prolongation of primary autism 92, 96

Tom 72–73

treatments prospects 108–110

acting out, in therapy 123

alienation 105

amnesia 171

‘amoeboid’ type of child 49–50, 73

animals, in clinical material 42, 43

animism 79

anorexia nervosa 81, 174

*Anthony, J. 92, 104

anxiety — see Fright, fear and anxiety

Appell, Genevieve 70, 108

‘armour’ — see David; Tessa

‘as if ‘

behaviour 59

oedipus complex 116

personality 54, 123

‘atmospheric’ children 10, 34

attention

paid to infant 26–27, 103

of therapist 175

autism, concept

normal compared with abnormal 1–2, 103, 105

autism, normal — see Normal primary autism autism, pathological; Pathological autism. see also Abnormal primary autism; Encapsulated secondary autism; Regression to secondary autism

autism, syndromes 124–138

see also Childhood schizophrenia; Early infantile autism

autism, types compared 85–89

factors, precipitating (Chart I) 92–95

features, differential (Chart II) 96–101

autistic barriers 78, 103–108

autistic objects 60–68

abnormal 66

distinguished from transitional 62–63, 68

function 79

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS
• FOREWORD
• One Autism
• Two Psychotic Depression
• Three Autistic Processes in Action
• Four ‘Grit’ and ‘Second Skin’ Phenomena
• Five Autistic Processes: Further Discussion
• Six Autistic Objects
• Seven Systems of Pathological Autism
• Eight Classification as a Basis for Treatment
• Nine Early Infantile Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia as Specific Syndromes
• Ten A Clinical Description of Childhood Schizophrenia
• Eleven A Setting for Psychotherapy
• Twelve Phases in Psychotherapy
• Conclusion
• REFERENCES
• INDEX