Let’s stop looking only at the body of the person with autism?
Despite the profusion of research and diagnostics, there are many questions still unanswered when it comes to autism. Therefore, any kind of causal relationship is sought at all times. But most of them are spurious, as proven to further research. Autism is not caused by vaccines, nor dietary diets, let alone Tylenol, such as US President Donald Trump, said last week!
Let’s stop looking only at the body.
Despite the predominance of biological research, psychoanalytic production on autism is also robust, but it is the nature of psychoanalysis not to present itself in the social field with many numbers or pointing to simple generalizations: it is practice that values the case, it serves little statistics and has a theorizing of great complexity, being difficult, when not trivializing, its diffusion.
In addition, it is a practice that has been suffering attacks, which makes its visibility difficult. This does not mean, however, that psychoanalytic research on autism has not evolved. On the contrary; Since Virginia Axline presented, in 1964, her first case, treated with great delicacy and solid results, the clinic has developed, overcome errors of interpretation, expanded to domains such as educational and school, dialogue with positive science and gathered a considerable amount of good results.
It must be remembered that the person with autism has every right to have an unconscious, desires and yearning to be with others. But we know how hard this is for them. We also know that although your biological body, your motor development and often your intelligence are widely developed, the difficulties they face to be, even wanting, with others, impact other dimensions of your life.
We can highlight one of them, usually set aside by researchers who look mainly at the neurological dimension. It is the fact that the person with autism lives difficulties in the construction of what is called body image-the psychic and unconscious representation of their body, which is not confused with the body scheme. In the autistic, the body scheme appears well developed, so as to allow it a good movement in space.
