Join us as our PCC Member Emeritus, Judith Mitrani, PhD present her important paper on psychoanalytic technique, Trying to Enter the Long Black Branches: Some Technical Extensions of the Work of Frances Tustin for the Analysis of Autistic States in Adults (IJP, 2011).
In this paper, Dr. Mitrani suggests a number of technical extensions and clinical applications of Frances Tustin’s work with autistic children, which are applicable to the psychoanalysis of neurotic, borderline and psychotic adults. These are especially relevant to those individuals in whom early uncontained experiences have been silently encapsulated through the use of secretive auto-sensual maneuvers and bodily protections related to autistic objects and shapes. Learn more.