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| Contributors | xv |
| Introduction to the Life and Work of Frances Tustin Theodore and Judith Mitrani | xxi |
| Part I Prenatality Through Latency | |
| Chapter 1 The Perpetuation of an Error Frances Tustin | 3 |
| Chapter 2 Stuck between Two Worlds: Autistic Defenses and the Experience of Premature Birth Angela Sowa | 19 |
| Chapter 3 Prenatal Trauma and Autism Suzanne Maiello | 37 |
| Chapter 4 Further Reflections on the Construction of the Body-Ego Geneviève Haag | 54 |
| Chapter 5 Finding the Wavelength: Tools in Communication with Autistic Children Anne Alvarez | 69 |
| Part II Adolescence Through Adulthood | |
| Chapter 6 The Use of Observation in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a 12-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's Syndrome Maria E. Pozzi | 83 |
| Chapter 7 Aspects of the Body Image and Sense of Identity in a Boy with Autism: Implications for Eating Disorders Maria Rhode | 100 |
| Chapter 8 Long-Term Mother-Child Psychotherapy: Infantile Autism with Cerebellar Anomaly Bianca Lechevalier-Haïm | 115 |
| Chapter 9 Autistic Phenomena in Neurotic Patients Sydney Klein | 134 |
| Chapter 10 Precipitation Anxiety in the Analysis of Adult Patients Didier Houzel | 143 |
| Chapter 11 On the Concept of an Autistic-Contiguous Position Thomas H. Ogden | 155 |
| Chapter 12 Trying to Enter the Long Black Branches: Some Technical Extensions for the Analysis of Autistic States in Adults Judith L. Mitrani | 174 |
| Chapter 13 Ghosts in the Swamp: Some Aspects of Splitting and Their Relationship to Parental Losses Kate Barrows | 194 |
| References | 209 |