Encounters with Autistic States

Theodore Mitrani, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst in private practice with children and adults, and a senior faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. Judith L. Mitrani, Ph.D., is a senior faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California and guest faculty at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies and at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

This remarkable tribute consists of a collection of invaluable papers on subjects close to Tustin's heart that touch on questions at the very core of the human experience. Those who know her work will welcome the opportunity to deepen their understanding of her seminal contributions to psychoanalysis on such issues as psychic autism, hopelessness, despair, awe, ecstasy, and isolation. For those unfamiliar with the thinking of Frances Tustin on regressed and primitive mental states, the book constitutes a found treasure.