Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self - The Legacy of Frances Tustin

This book, based on the 7th International Conference on the Work of Frances Tustin in 2014, offers readers a contribution to the understanding and treatment of primitive mental states and primitive character disorders.

List of contents

Introduction -- Finding a center of gravity via proximity with the analyst -- Daydreaming and hypochondria: when daydreaming goes wrong and hypochondria becomes an autistic retreat -- "Black holes" and "fear of breakdown" in the analysis of a fetishistic-masochistic patient -- Autistic states in patients with a narcissistic structure -- Sensual experience, defensive second skin, and the eclipse of the body: some thoughts on Tustin and Ferrari -- "Emotional" storms in autistoid dynamics -- "The very same is lost": in pursuit of mental coverage when emerging from autistic states -- Bion and the unintegrated states: falling, dissolving, and spilling -- Inhibition of curiosity due to concern about the object's response: difficulties in tolerating a "third position" in relation to autism -- Language used as an autistic object -- The struggle to make the autistic child human -- Beckett's Endgame: the collapse of mental life -- The autistic object, ethology, and neuroscience: a way to a Copernican revolution in the understanding of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)?

About the author

B. Levine, Howard

Summary

This book, based on the 7th International Conference on the Work of Frances Tustin in 2014, offers readers a contribution to the understanding and treatment of primitive mental states and primitive character disorders.

Product details

• Authors: Howard B. Levine, Howard B. Levine, Howard B. Power Levine, David Power
• Assisted by: Howard B. Levine (Editor), David Power (Editor), David G. Power (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781782202974
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-297-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works