Study Group: "Autism and Psychoanalysis"

In this group, psychologist Fernanda Baqueiro and psychologist Luis Carlos Batista intend to present the main psychoanalytic concepts regarding the subjective constitution of the autistic subject, the possibilities and impossibilities of treatment, the effects of diagnosis and the relationship of the autistic person with their environment and society.

Program content

The subjective constitution

• The subject for psychoanalysis
• The Big Other
• The Name of the Father and the Mirror Stadium
• The drives

Structures

• Neurosis
• Psychosis
• Perversion

Autism

• History of Autism
• Autism, a fourth structure?
• Psychoanalytic theories about autism

Evaluation and treatment

• Denver
• TAB
• Instruments and scales (Preaut, IRDI, MChat and APEGI)
• Early intervention
• Psychic resuscitation

The Diagnosis

• Who is a diagnosis for?
• The social character
• The psychic dimension
• The effects