ARW – Project France

ShareDisability Rights International is a non-profit organization that investigates the institutionalization of adults and children with mental and physical disabilities, documenting and exposing human rights abuses that are committed against them. They just released a statement alleging  Torturous Practice Against Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in France. Latest News: Disability Rights International Alleges Torturous Practice Against Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in France Washington, DC – February 23, 2012 – Disability Rights International (DRI) calls on the French government to [...]

ShareI strongly support your appeal and hope it goes well. The opinions so clearly expressed in The Wall by the professionals interviewed are entirely their own responses to questions posed and are totally out of keeping with research-based progress made over the past decades in our understanding of the nature of autism, its aetiology and helpful interventions. It is legitimate to question the dominance of these long out-dated, unsubstantiated and destructive views as a basis for service provision and treatment [...]

ShareThis support statement was sent on Feb 8, 2012 by Prof Anita Thapar, Clinical Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Cardiff All interventions have the potential to harm as well as benefit. It is for this reason that they need to be evaluated, shown to be effective and grounded in evidence.  There is growing research evidence on autism, its origins and interventions. Psychoanalysis has not been shown to be effective in treating autism and nor is it based on current knowledge about how autism arises and persists. Anita [...]

Share This is the translation of a message of support to the bill proposed by Daniel Fasquelle, French GOP representative. This message was transmited by Evelyne Friedel, vice president of Autism Europe and published January 31, 2012 on the representatives’s blog. As the Vice President of Autism Europe, and on behalf of our international association, I wanted to inform you of the support of our international organization to your bill which intends to remove the psychoanalytic practices in the treatment [...]

Share The French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued on Feb. 7th 2012 a communique in reaction to the censorship face by the film “The Wall” after a court décision. Reporters Without Borders is deeply disturbed by the precedent that a court in the northern city of Lille set on 26 January when it ordered documentary filmmaker Sophie Robert to remove interviews with three psychoanalysts from her film about the treatment of autism and to pay them a large sum [...]

ShareThis is a translation of the communique released by Autistes Sans Frontières on February 4th, 2012. The Court censors the film “The Wall” and gives psychoanalysts the opportunity to continue to deny the evidence of the inadequacy of their speech Following the conviction by the court of the documentary “The Wall or psychoanalysis put to the test for autism” directed by Sophie Robert, the non-profit organization Autistes Sans Frontières is no longer allowed to broadcast the film on its website. [...]

Share Autism France sent “Collectif Soutenons Le Mur” a press release in French on February 3, 2012 to react to the verdict in the legal case of “The Wall”, a film of Sophie Robert censored in France. We approve this release in full.   Press release   Autism France is appalled by the judgment that censors the Wall, following the complaint of three psychoanalysts interviewed. Psychoanalysts are not co-authors of the documentary, as recognized by the judgment. What is shocking [...]

ShareGood luck with the appeal. The use of the law to suppress clinical debate is a repressive step, and risks bringing the courts themselves into disrepute. And good wishes too for the year of the “Grande Cause Nationale” which could bring modern and humane processes into the management of autism. Eric Taylor Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King’s College London FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci Profile of Eric Taylor at King’s College London Eric Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Child [...]

ShareThe French Society of Authors (SCAM) disseminated a press release on Jan. 31, 2012 viewing the decision of Sophie Robert worrisome for the entire documentary profession in France. “The Scam is concerned after accusations, aimed at the entire profession, calling distortion and possibly deception the editing of a documentary film. The decision shows that the court decides to interfere in the editing process of a documentary film.” Press Release of SCAM in French Update: Feb. 2, 2012, Translation of the [...]

Share Because of psychoanalysis, many children and adults with autism in France are denied the support they really need. And what they need is education based on scientific knowledge about autism, not an approach that is based on a pseudoscientific approach like psychoanalysis. I fully support ” The Wall”. Dr. Peter Vermeulen, PhD Belgium Author of : Comment pense une personne autiste ? (Dunod, 2005) Comprendre les personnes autistes de haut niveau. De l’épreuve á la clinique. (Dunod, 2009) Autisme [...]