English texts

Some critics of psychoanalysis, who influence government agencies, and to whom the press gives a good welcome, repeatedly report untruths about the psychoanalytical care of autistic people in France and about the supposed scientificity in this domain of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT). It seems useful to recall here some essential data.
The cause of autism remains elusive. Its very nature is still debated. There is no gene or drug therapy. Yet it is often asserted that: “Autism (…)

Letter to the President of the French Republic, Mr Holland, written by RAAPH (Gathering For a Humanistic and Pluralistic Approach to Autisms), an association of parents whose child’s are with autism.

Affinity therapy, implemented in the case of Owen Suskind, brings new life to the care given to autistic individuals, dominated as it is today by the recommendations and advice of more traditional learning methods.

AUTISTS are subjects who are to be taken seriously. Those of them that write express themselves to make it known that they are intelligent beings who ask to be treated with greater consideration and to appeal for some respect for the inventions they elaborate as a means of containing anxiety. Do they wish there to be a legal prohibition of those that listen to them, with a view to subjecting them, often without their consent, to learning procedures? Ought they to be forced, or oughtn’t they rather to be listened to?