Support The Wall – Le Mur

After a quiet period of a couple months following the French elections and the Government’s focus on solving the European debt crisis, Autism Rights Watch believe it is time to follow up on the issues in France. The film “The Wall” (Le Mur) on autism in France remains censored following the court decision of Lille in January. No date has been set for the appeal as of today. In the meaning time, Sophie Robert continues her efforts to debunk psychoanalysis. This [...]

This article on a family was published on August 1, 2012 in the French regional newspaper “Le Progrès” of the Loire area provides substantial evidence on the inhumane conditions of institutionalization of teenagers with autism in France. Children are restrained, strapped and faces bruises. Yet, parents must accept institutionalization in the fear of a report to child protection services. Translation: David Heurtevent Note: Bold Italic emphasis was added to highlight key facts.   “Loire. The plight of a mother against [...]

Couple days ago, we released the translation of an article on a civil lawsuit against an ABA center and Dr. Vinca Rivière in Lille, France, published early july in the web newspaper Mediapart. Some of you have asked for the translation of the first article on the story, published by Mediapart in April. We did it and we would like to thank Karen for her translation efforts. This article is highly critical of the methods of the Camus Center and [...]

The following article describes a lawsuit in Lille against an ABA practitioner with the clear goal to close the only university program in ABA in France and to attack ABA after the recommendations of March 2012 favoring ABA against psychoanalysis in the treatment of children with autism in France. Translation thanks to Karen Wilshin Read the original source in French By Sophie Dufau -Mediapart.fr The treatment of autistic children in the North of France, using the methods of Vinca Rivière, [...]

The new Prime Minister Jean Marc Ayrault was until recently unknown to most foreigners and even to many French people. Prior to his appointment by President François Hollande as Prime Minister, Jean Marc Ayrault was the chair of the socialist parti’s MPs at the French National Assembly since 1997.  Some in the conservative opposition have questioned his integrity before his appointment as Prime Minister after being sentenced for favoritism in 1997 while he was the mayor of Nantes, even though [...]

French Weekly magazine L’Express released on May 24th 2012 a never seen sequence part of the dailies of the documentary “The Wall/Le Mur” of Sophie Robert on autism in France. On January 26, the judge of the court of Lille censored the documentary with the removal of three plaintiffs’ interviews from the documentary and the case is currently pending appeal. This never released footage shows psychoanalyst Esthela Solano-Suarez, one of the plaintiffs, during a 7-minute break explaining in depth her [...]

Henry Bond, is an English writer, photographer and visual artist, diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. More surprising, he is a scholar who made contribution to theoretical psychoanalysis and forensics with his book Lacan at the Scene, Published at MIT Press in 2009 in which he analyzes forensics pictures in a lacanian framework. On April 16, 2012, Henry Bond offered his insight on autism and psychoanalysis in the british newspaper “The Guardian“, following the article earlier this month on the BBC. Henry [...]

Michael Brooks published on April 20, 2012 a blog post in the “New Statesman”, an English political affairs magazine, on the attitude of the French intellectuals toward science. Michael Brooks is a quite famous british rationalist and science writer with a PhD in Quantum Physics from the University of Sussex. For Michael Brook, French intellectuals know nothing about science and France has always struggled with evidence-based science. He argues that “being autistic, or the parents of autistic children in France [...]

Today, April 2nd 2012, is the Wold Autism Awareness Day and it is time to speak about autism rights in France. The BBC has decided to do so on its website with an article calling France’s autism treatment ‘shame’. The article is a very well researched article about some of the issues there. Excerpt: “For autism campaigners, it is one of the most serious health scandals of our times. How for decades France turned its back on the latest scientific [...]

  Following the court decision of January 26, 2012 against Sophie Robert, the attorney Nicolas Benoit, representing Sophie Robert and her company Ocean Invisible Productions, formally summoned “Support the Wall – Autism” on February 22, 2012 to remove the video of the documentary “The Wall” and all excerpts from supportthewall.org, soutenonslemur.org and from the Youtube account of Soutenons Le Mur. Despite a conditional acceptance of the site editor, Mr. Benoit sent a request on March 28, 2012 to Youtube to [...]