Autistic States in Children

By F. Tustin. 2021

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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: 8. The pathological operation of auto-sensiouness. 9. Psychological birth and psychological catastrophe. 10. Autistic objects. 11. Confusional objects. 12. the asymbolic nature of auto-sensousness. 13. Awareness in autistic states. 14. Psychotherapy with autistic states in children. 15. Transference phenomena in autistic states. PART 3: 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.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience

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2. K. Aitken

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3. Joel Krueger

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• Infant intersubjectivity: research, theory, and clinical applications. (2001, background): “Psychoanalytic therapists (e.g. Haag, 1984; Meltzer, Bremer, Hoxter, Weddell, & Wittenberg, 1975; Tustin, 1981) are sensitive to the feelings of fragmented body- and self-awareness and weak perceptual grasp of objects and the behaviours of other persons that some autistic adults describe vividly (Gr”