Abstract

DE MORAES, Natália de Andrade  and  PERRONE, Claudia Maria. The controversy of autism psychoanalytic treatment: political, social and economic dimensions. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp. 12-22. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v17i2.5242.

This study problematizes the controversy of the psychoanalytic treatment of autism, situating the present form in Brazil. Assuming the inseparability between the political and clinical fields, it proposes the discussion of the socio-political and economic aspects of the problem as a way of contextual understanding of what presents itself as a clinical issue. In this sense, it works on the way in which the advances of the behavioral logic witness a erasure of the dimension of the subject, leading to the biologization of the human and the relations of suppression of the difference and the suffering, discussing the effects of neoliberal thinking on the field of health, specifically in relation to psychoanalysis and autism, in order to evidence submission to a market logic. Finally, it seeks to place the place of psychoanalysis in the composite context, signaling its movement of resistance to the logic of dispute incorporated in the debates on the treatment of autism.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; autism; psychoanalytic clinic; psychoanalysis and politics.

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