Perpetual children : the politics of autism in France since 1950 / Jonathyne Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Jonathyne, 1970- author.

Series:

New histories of pscyhology.

Oxford scholarship online.

New histories of pscyhology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autism--Research--France--History.

Autism.

Autism--Government policy--France--History.

Autism in children--France.

Autism in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This text tells the story of how attitudes toward and treatment of autism in France diverged from those of other countries based on the persistence of psychoanalysis in French psychology, which led to conflict between psychology professionals and parents' groups over the proper treatment of autists. The activism of parents' groups and the scholarship of psychoanalysts initiated political and legal changes.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The French Divergence

1. The Transatlantic Era of Autism

2. Parents as a United Front

3. The Psychoanalytic State

4. Parental Expertise as Resistance

5. The Deepening Divergence

6. The Battle and the Arrival of Self-Advocacy

Conclusion: A New Age of Autism?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 23, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-768300-2

0-19-768298-7

OCLC:

1487556847