Abstract

ALMEIDA, Maíra Lopes  and  NEVES, Anamaria Silva. Psychoanalytic interventions with families of children with autism. Estilos clin. [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.2, pp. 220-232. ISSN 1415-7128.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v25i2p220-232.

This study aims to discuss clinical care with families of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The adjective "strange" recurrently quoted to adjectivate these children is the starting point for the necessary discussion that refers to the reception of the family group. Faced with this stranger daily, the care of these families imposes a series of questions on psychoanalysis. Classical psychoanalytic authors are traversed to explore the possibility of listening to this group and current evidence on psychoanalytic care for children diagnosed with ASD and their families is presented. It is considered that psychoanalysis constitutes a primordial space to welcome the stranger and to provide new meanings and possibilities of encounter between the subjects.

Keywords : autism; childhood; family relationships; family; psychoanalysis.

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