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Frances Tustin: The Protective Shell in Children and Adults

Mark (NicheMarket)

Anyne read Frances Tustin: The Protective Shell in Children and Adults?

A friend gave it to me. I'm a bit sceptical from the back cover, but wondered if there were insights to be gained from it? It's a psychotherapeutic approach to autism.

  • It's interesting.

    She's missing out on more recent scientific understandings of the autistic brain and so is framing things different to how someone with that info would, but I think she's doing a good job of exploring the psychological implications of autism as a result of the physiological.

    She certainly describes my early relationship to my mother, and her to me, uncannily. And she also describes my protective shell really well, as well as MR Great Guy's.

    It's psychoanalyitical in the Freudian / Klein sense which I don't agree with a lot of the time, but I'm def gonna read, and is a nice bedtime read.

  • in reply to aidie

    I'm gonna do chapter one tonight. I've got some therapy training so should be alright with the vocab and concepts, I'm just unsure about her take on autism. I'll find out!

  • it gets good reviews  

    "The Protective Shell in Children and Adults does not propose a 'cure' for autism. Rather, it suggests that psychotherapeutic treatment which is based on a deep understanding of the function of autism can modify and heal the overwhelming need for this powerful inbuilt survival reaction, so that it is used appropriately in a less overall and crippling way.

    This work is by a professional primarily for other professionals, but thoughtful people who are interested in the fundamental aspects of human nature will also find much to interest them."

    I would attempt to read it --- u might need some psychotherapeutic experience/knowledge