This volume, containing twenty remarkable papers from psychoanalysts and child therapists around the world, is a fitting homage to the independent-minded, straight-talking woman who devoted her career to penetrating and understanding the inner world of autistic children. Contributors include students, colleagues, collaborators, supervisees, and friends, who add rich case material and considered theoretical review and extension to revealing memoirs of Frances Tustin herself.

Born in 1913 in England, Tustin came to study at the Tavistock Clinic to become a child psychotherapist. Under the tutelage of Esther Bick, founder of Kleinian infant observation, she also studied with John Bowlby, who originated attachment and bonding theory, and began a 14-year personal analysis with Wilfred Bion. In a time of