TY - BOOK AU - Constant,Jacques TI - Life Courses of an Autistic Person and a Psychotic Person, from Childhood to Adulthood PY - 2008///. N1 - 44 N2 - This paper describes the backgrounds of two people suffering from pervasive developmental disorders, one from a typical form (Kanner’s autism) and one an atypical form (psychosis with presence of attachment disorders). This paper discusses the counter-attitudes that their respective psychopathology induced in the caretakers who treated them as they passed from childhood and adolescence to adulthood. The contradiction between the permanency of the psychopathological disorders and the evolution of the caretakers’ positions at different stages in their lives can be partially resolved by Paul Ricoeur’s ideas about the paradoxes of identity UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-enfances-et-psy-2008-1-page-79?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -