PUBLIC POLICIES FOR AUTISM IN BRAZIL, FROM THE PSYCHOANALYSIS PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • Paula Ramos Pimenta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n3p1248-1262

Keywords:

Autism. Brazilian public policies. Psychoanalysis.

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the transposition, within the scope of Brazilian public policies, of the existing epistemic tension between the re-educational and psychodynamic proposals for the treatment of autism, identifying Psychoanalysis in the latter category and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy among the former. Thus, some Brazilian norms that rule the inclusion of people with autism in public policies are briefly presented here. It focus on the content of the two guiding documents for the treatment of autism in the Unified National Health System (SUS), issued by the Ministry of Health in 2013, which makes it possible to explain the perspective of psychoanalysis in relation to the proposed policies. The shift of epistemic tension to the political context, with the consequent legal claim forbidding the psychoanalysis to assist people with autism, is cleared up by some recent historical facts, taking place either in France or in Brazil. The methodology applied was the literature review.

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Author Biography

Paula Ramos Pimenta

Doutora em Psicologia, pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), com pesquisa voltada para o tema do autismo, professora da Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais e do curso de Pós-graduação Lato Sensu Abordagem Psicanalítica do Autismo e suas Conexões do IEC-PUC Minas, membro-fundador do Movimento Psicanálise, Autismo e Saúde Pública (MPASP), atual coordenadora do Observatório de Políticas do Autismo da Federação Americana de Psicanálise de Orientação Lacaniana (FAPOL), psicóloga e psicanalista.

Published

2020-09-29

Issue

Section

Dossiê Autismo e Psicanálise