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Frances Tustin Today Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 Frances Tustin is an icon within British Object-Relations psychoanalysis. It is good to have in this book a sustained tribute to her ideas and to their significant and enduring contribution. Her tradition of learning fundamental truths from autistic conditions remains lively, productive and inspiring. Tustin’s work sustains one of the founding principles of Object-Relations work – that the depth of psychoanalytic ideas is enhanced by rigorous work with children. As that long- held view – going back to the innovative work of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein – has weakened over time, granting a more exclusive place to work with adults, it is important to have this book to redress that imbalance. This collection draws us back to the fundamental questions about working with another mind. How can one conceive of the object relations of a mind that can barely sustain the possibility of relating to others? It is commonplace to regard psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge derived from what goes wrong, but what can be learned about a mind that has gone so radically and despairingly wrong? It is evident from the wide range of papers presented here that indeed much can be learned from the work with children, contributing that which is not accessible in the work with adults alone. This book is a celebration of clinical and therapeu- tic confidence from those who have actually persevered in the presence of severe autism, those who have managed to form a joint venture with their suffering young patients, both large and small. — Bob Hinshelwood, Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex The editors of Frances Tustin Today have done a wonderful job of bringing together an exciting collection of some of the most important writings illustrating Tustin’s extraordinary influence on contemporary psychoanalytic work, particu- larly regarding the entire autism spectrum. The book may be likened to a string of pearls. The single pearls, like the single articles, are precious in their own right, yet when strung together they form an entirely new and even more valuable reality. The book, in my view, presents an invaluable harvest of ideas that will inspire and motivate future developments in a field as controversial as it isimportant – indeed there is a growing awareness that we all experience autistic trends to one degree or another. In short, Frances Tustin Today is highly recommended to anyone wishing to delve more deeply into primitive mental states in the directions Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 pointed out by Bion. — Antonino Ferro, Italian Psychoanalytic Society This book is essential reading for those interested in autistic states and the dimen- sion of autosensuality and autosensual protections in mental states of mind. It shows both Tustin’s own theoretical development and her influence on contem- porary thinkers from around the world. — Dana Birksted-Breen, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis This page intentionally left blank Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 Frances Tustin Today 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 represent a selection of the contemporary thinking that organically grew out of Tustin’s discoveries, and show that Tustin’s model has added new dimensions to the fields of infant observation, family therapy and neuro-psychology. Each chapter is augmented by demonstrable clinical experience. Frances Tustin Today is a valuable resource for psychoana- lysts, psychotherapists, educators and parents who are interested in learning more about this uniquely independent clinical observer’s findings and their impact upon the treatment of autistic states in children, adolescents and adults by contemporary workers in the field of mental health. Judith L. Mitrani and Theodore Mitrani are Fellows of the International Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 Psychoanalytical Association, and training and supervising psychoanalysts at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles. They are founding members of the Board of Trustees of the Frances Tustin Memorial Trust, and authors, editors, translators and teachers in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy with adults and children in Los Angeles, California. This page intentionally left blank Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 The New Library of Psychoanalysis General Editor: Alessandra Lemma The New Library of Psychoanalysis was launched in 1987 in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. It took over from the International Psychoanalytical Library which published many of the early translations of the works of Freud and the writings of most of the leading British and Continental psychoanalysts. The purpose of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those working in other disciplines such as the social sciences, medicine, philosophy, history, linguistics, literature and the arts. It aims to represent different trends both in British psychoanalysis and in psychoanalysis generally. The New Library of Psychoanalysis is well placed to make available to the English-speaking world psychoanalytic writings from other European countries and to increase the inter- change of ideas between British and American psychoanalysts. Through the Teaching Series, the New Library of Psychoanalysis now also publishes books that provide comprehensive, yet accessible, overviews of selected subject areas aimed at those studying psychoanalysis and related fields such as the social sciences, philosophy, literature and the arts. The Institute, together with the British Psychoanalytical Society, runs a low-fee psychoanalytic clinic, organises lectures and scientific events concerned with psycho- analysis and publishes the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. It runs a training course in psychoanalysis which leads to membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association – the body which preserves internationally agreed Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 standards of training, of professional entry and of professional ethics and practice for psychoanalysis as initiated and developed by Sigmund Freud. Distinguished members of the Institute have included Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, Ronald Fairbairn, Anna Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, John Rickman and Donald Winnicott. Previous general editors have included David Tuckett, who played a very active role in the establishment of the New Library. He was followed as general editor by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, who was in turn followed by Susan Budd and then by Dana Birksted-Breen. Current members of the Advisory Board include Liz Allison, Giovanna di Ceglie, Rosemary Davies and Richard Rusbridger. Previous members of the Advisory Board include Christopher Bollas, Ronald Britton, Catalina Bronstein, Donald Campbell, Sara Flanders, Stephen Grosz, John Keene, Eglé Laufer, Alessandra Lemma, Juliet Mitchell, Michael Parsons, Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Mary Target and David Taylor. Titles in this series Impasse and Interpretation Herbert Rosenfeld Psychoanalysis and Discourse Patrick Mahony The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men Marion Milner The Riddle of Freud Estelle Roith Thinking, Feeling, and Being Ignacio Matte Blanco The Theatre of the Dream Salomon Resnik Melanie Klein Today: Volume 1, Mainly Theory Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius Melanie Klein Today: Volume 2, Mainly Practice Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph Edited by Michael Feldman and Elizabeth Bott Spillius About Children and Children-No-Longer: Collected Papers 1942–80 Paula Heimann. Edited by Margret Tonnesmann The Freud–Klein Controversies 1941–45 Edited by Pearl King and Riccardo Steiner Dream, Phantasy and Art Hanna Segal Psychic Experience and Problems of Technique Harold Stewart Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion Edited by Robin Anderson From Fetus to Child Alessandra Piontelli A Psychoanalytic Theory of Infantile Experience: Conceptual and Clinical Reflections E. Gaddini. Edited by Adam Limentani The Dream Discourse Today Edited and introduced by Sara Flanders The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Feminitity and Masculinity Edited and introduced by Dana Breen Psychic Retreats John Steiner Downloaded by [New York University] at 03:54 14 August 2016 The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis Jean-Michel Quinodoz Unconscious Logic: An Introduction to Matte-Blanco’s Bi-logic and its Uses Eric Rayner Understanding Mental Objects Meir Perlow Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie Edited and introduced by Michael Sinason What Do Psychoanalysts Want?: The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy Joseph
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