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Autism in Switzerland: 'We must finally say goodbye to the psychoanalytical approach' (extract)

From Volume 4 Number 5


GENEVA, Switzerland:  Parents of autistic children are demanding that the psycho-analytical approach to autism ends once and for all and that specialised schools are created in Geneva.
    "I watched some programmes on the television. I had a child who, at three years old, was arranging his books in an obsessional way, lining up pebbles and being very picky with his food. It wasn't normal. I went to the child experts and asked: 'Is he autistic?' They replied: 'No, he has behavioural problems.' It was vague, but I suddenly felt relieved."  Two years later, Marie-Jeanne Accietto's son was diagnosed with autism ...

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