ABSTRACT
When autistic children are studied in the psychotherapeutic situation, we find that they are in a state of limbo, teetering between 'being' and 'not-being'. This paper seeks to study how their early sense of 'going-on-being', as Winnicott so well called it, has been put in jeopardy. It will also indicate the type of psychotherapy that has freed some of them from their autistic obstructions, 34so that ongoing psychological development could be set in train.
