Ambroise, Pascale
Being a parent-baby psychotherapist today
- 2023.
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The correlation between early symptoms and the actual diagnosis of autism is neither linear nor sufficient to explain disorders and their outcomes. Baptiste, a twenty-month-old baby with autism spectrum disorder in a context of exposure to screens, benefited from early and simultaneous psychoanalytic therapy with his parents, from a developmental and relational perspective. Baptiste’s drawings bear witness to a therapeutic process based on the stages of construction of the body self and its favorable evolution.