(...contd. from Bibliography page)
Tustin's four books and many papers provide vivid clinical accounts of the children she treated or whose treatment she supervised. When her first patient with autism, John, began to talk, he told her about the 'black hole with a nasty prick' that he felt he had in his mouth when he realised that he was physically separate from his caregivers: recognising the importance of this black hole of non-existence is one of Tustin's central contributions, with important implications for such conditions as severe depression. She described vividly the existential terrors faced by many of the children she saw, including the fear of falling forever, of spilling out, of losing parts of the body, of burning or freezing. She took very seriously their need for self-protection, and warned against attempting to strip this away before the child had come to feel understood and therefore safe.
In her view, psychoanalytic psychotherapy provided a setting within which the therapist could learn to understand the autistic child's experience through painstaking observation and by carefully monitoring her own feeling response. Tustin's imaginative insights are vividly conveyed in her writings, which are both poetic and precise and which speak to parents as well as professionals. She had great sympathy for the courage of the parents whose children she treated, who she said inspired compassion and therapeutic ambition, and she firmly opposed the tendency of some early writers to hold them responsible for their children's condition.
Tustin's work inspired great interest world-wide, and many students continue to build on it. This website provides links to some of her main contributions.
Frances Tustin: Bibliography
Tustin, F. (1951). A Group of Juniors: A Study of Latency Children's Play.
London: Heinemann Educational Books.
Tustin, F (1958). Anorexia nervosa in an adolescent girl. British Journal of
Medical Psychology 31: 184 - 200.
Tustin, F. (1963). Two drawings occurring in the analysis of a latency child.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 1: 41 - 6.
Tustin, F. (1966). 'A significant element in the development of autism'. Journal of
Child Psychology and Psychiatry 7: 53 - 67.
Tustin, F. (1967). Individual therapy in the clinic. 23rd Child Guidance Inter-Clinic
Conference (NAMH, London)
Tustin, F. (1969). Autistic processes.Journal of Child Psychotherapy. 2: 23 - 39.
Tustin, F. (1972). Autism and Childhood Psychosis., London: Hogarth; New
York: Science Hs.
Tustin, F. (1980). Autistic objects., Int. Rev. Psychoanal., 7:27-40.
Tustin, F. (1981). Autistic States in Children., London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul.
Tustin, F. (1984). Autistic shapes. Int. Rev. Psychoanal., 11:279-290.
Tustin, F. (1973). Therapeutic communication between psychotherapist and
psychotic child. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 2: 440 - 50.
Tustin, F. (1978). Psychotic elements in the neurotic disorders of children.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 4: 5 -18.
Tustin, F. (1980). Psychological birth and psychological catastrophe. In
Grotstein, J. S. (Ed.) Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? Beverly Hills, CA: Caesura
Press, 1981. Also in Autistic States in Children, London: Routledge, 1981.
Tustin, F. (1980). 'Autistic objects.' International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 7:
27 - 39.
Tustin, F. (1981). A modern Pilgrim's Progress: reminiscences of analysis with
Dr. Bion. Journal of Child Psychotherapy 7: 175 - 9.
Tustin, F. (1981). "I"-ness: the emergence of the self. Winnicott Studies 1.
Tustin, F. (1983). 'Thoughts on autism with special reference to a paper by
Melanie Klein.' Journal of Child Psychotherapy 9: 119 - 31.
Tustin, F. (1984). Autistic shapes. International Review of Psycho-Analysis 11:
279 - 90.
Tustin, F. (1984). Autism - aetiology and therapy. Proceedings of the Paris
Conference on Autism.
Tustin, F. (1984). Significant understandings in attempts to ameliorate autistic
states. Proceedings of the Monaco Conference on Autism.
Tustin, F. (1984). The growth of understanding. Journal of Child Psychotherapy
10: 137 - 49.
Tustin, F.(1984) Autistic shapes and adult pathology.' Topique. (France)
Tustin, F. (1985).The threat of dissolution' Dédale (France)
Tustin, F. (1986). Autistic Barriers in Neurotic Patients, London: Karnac. Second
revised edition, 1994.
Tustin, F. (1987). The rhythm of safety. Winnicott Studies, 2.
Tustin, F. (1988). The black hole - a significant element in autism. Free
Association,s 11.
Tustin, F. (1988).Psychotherapy with children who cannot play. International
Review of Psycho-Analysis 15.
Tustin, F. (1988). "To be or not to be" - a study of autism. Winnicott Studies, 3.
Tustin, F. (1988). What autism is and what autism is not. In Szur, R. & Miller, S.
(eds) Extending Horizons. London: Karnac, 1991.
Tustin, F. (1991). Revised understandings of psychogenic autism. International
Journal of Psycho-Analysis 72: 585 - 92.
Tustin, F. (1993). On psychogenic autism. Psychoanalytic Inquiry , 13: 34 - 41.
Tustin, F. (1994).The perpetuation of an error. Journal of Child Psychotherapy,
20: 3 - 23.
Tustin, F.(1994). Autistic children who are assessed as not brain-damaged.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 20 : 103 - 31.
Tustin, F. (1988). Psychotherapy with children who cannot play., Int. Rev.
Psychoanal., 15:93-106.
Tustin, F. (1990). The Protective Shell in Children and Adults, London: Karnac
Books.
Tustin, F. (1991). Revised understandings of psychogenic autism., Int. J.
Psychoanal., 72:585-592.
Tustin, F. (1993). On psychogenic autism. Psychoanal. Inquiry, 13:34-41.
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