Abstract

LOPES, Ana Maria Costa da Silva. Autism and its connections: what medication for autism? . Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.3, pp. 1343-1352. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1677-1168.2019v25n3p1343-1352.

This article aims to discuss the connection between psychoanalysis and psychiatry based on the question: what is the medication for the autist? Narrative review was used as methodology. Scientific evidence shows that there is no specific medication for autism, but certain symptoms which disrupt the functionality of daily life, such as insomnia, aggressiveness, agitation, among others, can be medicated. What the analyst aims at is not to change the form of autistic functioning, but to allow the possibility of building a unique universe, solutions that no diagnostic manual can anticipate. In this sense, psychiatry and its therapeutic arsenal, via the act of medicating, take the place of the analyst’s partner, allowing the subject not to be reduced to being a simple object of diagnosis, in the name of a supposed "normality". Medication can contribute in a punctual, discontinuous or, at times, continuous manner, enabling the course of analytical treatment.

Keywords : Autism; Autism spectrum disorder; Medication; Neuroleptic; Psychoanalysis.

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