title: [Infantile autism in France in 1994].
abstract: The author tries, in is own, name to translate the French position on early child autism. This position can be expressed through a few acceptable points for the majority of French professionals, obviously without any idea of a consensus. The concept of a plurifactorial determinism and the psychopathological view of the disorder which is not thought of in France as susceptible to be reduced to a handicap of a primarily cognitive nature are therefore underlined. Thus the importance of a unified multidimensional therapeutic approach that considers the different consequences of the illness without forgetting its fundamentally interactive nature ("autistic-making process"). Today, the psychoanalytic approach tends to concentrate on the analysis of secondary factors of upholding and on the significance given in the after-thought by the autistic disorders within the family group. This opens the way to a collaboration between specialists of the different disciplines that are involved, including those who work in the field of neuroscience.
authors.affiliation: Université René-Descartes (Paris V).
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Golse
mesh_terms: D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: L'autisme infantile en France en 1994.