ARW – Project France

ShareHenry 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 [...]

ShareToday, 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 [...]

ShareThe comments of Dr. Hervé Bokobza, founder of the “Collectif des 39″ (39 Collective) in l’Express magazine have caused an outcry in the world of autism in France. On March 20, 2012, many people were quick to condemn and correct his remarks. In particular, Olivia Cattan, mother of a child with PDD and President of Paroles de Femmes, and Sophie Robert, director of the film “Le Mur” (“The Wall”) replied on the l’Express website. Olivia Cattan and Sophie Robert: “I [...]

ShareThe Connexion, France’s english speaking newspaper, announced on March 9 “Victory against psychoanalysis for children with autism in France“, explaining that “families of children with autism have won an important battle against the use of psychoanalysis to treat the disorder“. Indeed, on March 8th, the Higher Health Authority (HAS) issued major recommendation on autism care in France. The Connexion writes : “The High Health Authority (HAS) has made its recommendations, promoting the use of educational and behavioral approaches that have [...]

ShareBy David Heurtevent, Asperger, MA Georgetown Note : This article was published in French on 02/14/2012. Translation thanks to Karen Wilshin.   It would seem that the French Communist Party (PCF) and the CGT Health Union have lost their nerve following the leak of a draft report from the National Authority for Health and on the eve of a demonstration in Lille against packing and against the censure of Sophie Robert’s film organized by the association Vaincre L’Autisme (Beat Autism) [...]

ShareRomeo Vitelli, a canadian private practice psychologist, published on March 1, 2012 a blog entry on the film “The Wall” on autism and psychoanalysis, censored in France. The article explains that the film “The Wall” of Sophie Robert “served as a graphic reminder of the continuing popularity of an early theory about the causes of autism long thought debunked: the “Refrigerator Parent” hypothesis”. He reminds the story of this hypothesis and how it has been debunked in the 1960s then [...]

ShareThe French daily newspaper Libération published on February 28, 2012 a letter of Magali Pignard, a mom of an autistic son and an active member of Collectif Soutenons Le Mur. This article published in the paper version of the newspaper explains why exhausted parents consider exile as a solution. The translation was first published on Magali’s blog. We copy it here for our readers: I am writing to you because I am extremely shocked by the bias you show on [...]

Shareby David Heurtevent, Asperger, MA Georgetown “Of all those who have nothing to say, the most likeable are those who stay quiet. ” Coluche   Listening to France Culture (a Public Radio) is painful. The smell of mothballs wafts across the airwaves from Saint-Germain-des-Prés with daily sessions of verbal masturbation financed by the taxpayer. But it’s not surprising that France Culture is the main media outlet for psychoanalysis as the pseudo-humanist, ethno-centric, verbal and financial mechanisms are the same. On 10 [...]

Share13 February 2012 will go down as an important day in the evolution of the treatment of people with autism in France. The newspaper Liberation published a version of an unreleased report by the National Authority for Health (HAS) which the HAS was quick to refute, under pressure from the psychoanalytical lobby (APM News and AFP). Episode 1 – Libération publishes a report on “recommendations for good practice” by the National Authority for Health. In the evening of 12 February [...]

Share  As announced on France 3, The Prime Minister François Fillon today met the associations forming the “Ensemble l’Autisme” (Autism Together) Collective which is at the origin of Autism, the National Cause in France for 2012. On Thursday, the Prime Minster charged the Minister of Solidarities, Roselyne Bachelot with drawing up a new autism plan, reactivated the National Autism Council and charged Dominique Baudis, the Rights Ombudsman with “close monitoring” of treatments which do not respect human rights. Here are [...]