ARW – Project France

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 [...]

ShareThe week of Feb. 6 to Feb. 12, 2012 was mostly a European-centered week for “Support The Wall – Autism” and its sister organization “Collectif Soutenons Le Mur”. The NGO Reporters Without Borders issued a statement supporting Sophie Robert and considered that the court ruling is threatening documentary filmmaking in France”. The French Prime Minister organized a meeting with the French autism organizations to launch officially the “Grande Cause Nationale” P.R. campaign. He expressed the desire to launch a new [...]

ShareThe week of January 30th 2012 to February 5th 2012 was marked by a large response in France and abroad following the court decision censoring the film of Sophie Robert. “Support The Wall – Autism” and its sister organization “Collectif Soutenons Le Mur” received many support statements. On the international side, most statements came from scholars in top universities. On the French side, the largest French autism organizations (Autisme France, Autistes Sans Frontières, Agir & Vivre l’Autisme) and some belgian [...]

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 government owned international radio service Radio France International (RFI) aired a show on February 1, 2012 on “2012, Year of National attention to Autism”, a PR campaign funded by the French Government. This document is a summary of this broadcast in French. The broadcast includes, among others, the interviews of: Daniel Fasquelle, French Representative (GOP), president of the Parliamentary Autism Study Group, Valérie Létard, French Senator (GOP), who authored an evaluation report on autism policies, Marie-Dominique Amy, [...]

ShareDuring the week of January 16th to 22nd 2012, the campaign took a really international turn. International reactions January 17th, 2012 The autism community website, Wrongplanet, publishes a statement of David Heurtevent, co-founder of “Support the Wall: Autism”. The article goes somewhat viral. Within hours, it reaches 7000 views. In English: http://www.supportthewall.org/2012/01/interview-of-david-heurtevent-on-wrongplanet-autism-in-france-psychoanalysis-packing-and-other-travesties-why-it-matters/ January 19th, 2012 The global edition of the New York Times publishes a landmark article titled “A French Film Takes Issue With the Psychoanalytic Approach to Autism”. In [...]

ShareUpdated: January 16, 2012 The organisation of the first Parliamentary meetings on Autism in the National Assembly and the submission of the report by Valérie Létard, Senator for the North of France, generated extremely widespread coverage in both the general and specialised press. Most of the articles focused on the report’s content, which reviewed the government’s 2008-2010 Autism Plan. La Croix reported the opening of the first parliamentary sessions on autism where “four round table discussions are organised to evaluate [...]

ShareOn 11 January 2012, the community radio station Vivre FM invited Valérie Létard, Senator for the North of France, author of a report on autism and Daniel Fasquelle, elected representative of the Pas-de-Calais, President of the Autism Study Group in the French National Assembly to speak about autism in France. Listen to the original source in French   Comments We welcome the courage of Valérie Létard and Daniel Fasquelle in excluding psychoanalysis from the definition of autism. We also share [...]

ShareUpdated: Jan 23, 2012 January 9th 2012 A new video surfaces on the russian website Rutube. This video made in 1998 by CNAM is used apparently for teaching purposes in France. It shows Bernard Golse, one of the psychiatrists interviewed in “The Wall” putting blame on the parents for the autism of a child. It goes contrary to what Bernard Golse declared previously regarding the fact the Sophie Robert would have manipulated his real opinions on the origins of autism. [...]