About a hundred deputies have tabled a law resolution to ban psychoanalysis in the treatment of autism.
The question is subtle and probably deserves to be treated with finesse by autism experts. Otherwise, it will be in Parliament that it could be decided, in the midst of the presidential election and while the current mandate is coming to an end.
Should we see a political maneuver behind the last law resolution signed by a hundred deputies to “condemn and prohibit psychoanalytic practices in all their forms” in the treatment of autism. The text is carried by Les Républicains and acclaimed by political figures such as Laurent Wauquiez, Bernard Debré, Bernard Accoyer, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet but also Thomas Thevenoud (ex-PS).
Criminal liability
The deputies ask that only the therapies and the educational programs conforming to the recommendations of the High Authority of Health (HAS) be supported by the community. They believe that the government should engage the “criminal liability of health professionals who oppose scientific advances and commit medical errors in autism.”
If the text does not have the binding value of a law, it tries to convince the government to put in place a better management of autistic people and proposes to “reallocate all the funding” to “scientifically validated approaches that have done so. proof of their effectiveness ”to the detriment of those which are not recommended – in this case psychoanalysis.
“Liberticide”
Unsurprisingly, the law resolution has provoked the anger of psychoanalysts, while the debate on the contribution of psychoanalysis in the management of autism remains unresolved. The European Inter-Association of Psychoanalysis, which brings together 12 associations, denounced a “liberticidal”, “defamatory and slanderous” proposal.
This proposal would be “prejudicial to the majority of autistic subjects”, add these psychoanalysts, outraged by the threats on the economic and penal level.
The collective of 39, which represents professionals and several patient associations, for its part demands the withdrawal of the recommendations of the HAS and calls for signing the petition on change.org – approved in particular by child psychiatrists – against “science of state ”.
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