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.
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 objects 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 -- Becketts 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)?
B. Levine, Howard
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