tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post9032015274362326850..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Shame of French PsychoanalysisStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54438781527265446792017-03-31T15:23:07.863-07:002017-03-31T15:23:07.863-07:00That documentary was pretty eye opening, as well a...That documentary was pretty eye opening, as well as the information posted about how autistic children are treated in France. Psychiatrists trying to maintain their power, authority, and status quo at the expense of those they help? Say it isn't so.<br /><br />The french cop show "Engrenages" shows how the court systems work in France.Shaun Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17425084501514329529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40361601545474643052012-06-01T09:03:38.773-07:002012-06-01T09:03:38.773-07:00No, no and no. You are not making it up (what a hi...No, no and no. You are not making it up (what a hilarious idea, by the way, that people might start to wonder if you and Sophie are making it up!) <br />And I am fortunate enough to taking my son to one of the more up to date establishments. The pedopsychiatrist is excellent (or I wouldn't be going there, would I?), but she's a rare pearl in France. Unfortunately, some of her collegues still cling to ideas from the dark ages. It's very distressing and infuriating to have to deal with such hoodwinked people who are just so sure they know all about your psyche when in fact they're rather stupid really. Very indoctrinated, in any case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38706191004451546962012-05-30T09:10:32.242-07:002012-05-30T09:10:32.242-07:00I am very sorry to hear about the way the French s...I am very sorry to hear about the way the French system is treating you and your boy.<br /><br />I appreciate your sharing your own experience. Otherwise people think that I and Sophie Robert just made this all up.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87145985274265884102012-05-30T08:00:33.025-07:002012-05-30T08:00:33.025-07:00Thankyou, good reply, hopefully he will now creep ...Thankyou, good reply, hopefully he will now creep back under his rug. I am an anglosaxon mother living in France of a little boy with autism. It's hard. At the day hospital where my son has 2 weekly appointments, one person dares to make hints about reinforcing the father image in our family (not that she knows anything about our family, she just blindly assumes the father must occupy too little space as our child is autistic). I feel like telling her to shut the f up. How dare she abuse me in such an underhand, dogmatic and self-rightous way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7325020420881617402012-05-22T08:24:08.552-07:002012-05-22T08:24:08.552-07:00Thank you for sharing your ignorance with us. You ...Thank you for sharing your ignorance with us. You have provided yet another reason why psychoanalysis has fallen from grace-- its adherents are dimwits.<br /><br />Let's see, I wrote about Lacan as intellectual hero in 1983. In 1996 I wrote a book about Saving Face where I revised my views.<br /><br />Apparently, you did not know that.<br /><br />Every serious scientist who works with autism agrees that it is a neurological condition. For you to state with absolute certainty that it is an infantile psychosis because psychoanalysis says that that's what it is betrays the fact that you are a cult follower.<br /><br />The issue in the film and in the treatment modalities for autism the world over is: what is the most effective way to treat these children.<br /><br />As the psychoanalysts who gave a press conference at the Hotel Lutetia stated clearly, there is a mountain of evidence that behavioral approaches are very helpful and there is no evidence that psychoanalysis is helpful.<br /><br />For parents of autistic children, those are facts. French parents today who want to help their autistic children are mostly required to leave the country. That is real and that is a fact.<br /><br />The reason why this is that case is that people who think like you are in control of the way autism is treated in France. <br /><br />When a filmmaker points this out, psychoanalysts take offense. Either they are very thin-skinned or they reject the idea of free expression. When the Council of Europe condemns France for the way it treats autistic children, psychoanalysts take offense. When the French government-run medical system declares that psychoanalysis is not an indicated treatment for autism, they try to launch a lobbying campaign.<br /><br />They are simply not bothered by the fact that what they are offering, a theoretical fabulation, does not help.<br /><br />Thanks to psychoanalysts, Le Mur has been banned. Thanks to people like you we cannot even examine the evidence of how it was edited. The notion that courts should ban films because subjects, who gave their permission and who spoke freely, did not like the way they were edited. I have known some of the people who spoke in the film and I have seen some outtakes. In my view they were speaking openly and freely. <br /><br />They looked bad because they are fools. I have known many of the major figures in French psychoanalysis for quite some time. I have seen them in action, in America and in France. They do not need anyone's help to make fools of themselves. <br /><br />Since when has "tendentious" editing been grounds for suppressing creative expression? Do you think that a Michael Moore could ever work in France?Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89858401102801673262012-05-22T07:56:38.352-07:002012-05-22T07:56:38.352-07:00There's something a bit unsavoury about all of...There's something a bit unsavoury about all of this. At one point, you idealized Lacan as an 'intellectual hero', and now you demonize him like a spurned lover. <br />Your backflip notwithstanding, you've got this autism business entirely wrong. Autism is a childhood psychosis (by a psychoanalytic definition) - a lack of social bonds (in the most extreme cases), and the use of words as things (see echolalia). None of this ought to be controversial, irrespective of whether one attributes the cause of autism to the mother (which psychoanalysts do not do), to the brain, or to Obama. <br />You ought to engage in a little critical thinking before trying to indoctrinate others into your version of 'reality' (which is little more than Fox-news style imbecility). <br />Finally, <i>Le Mur</i> is tendentiously edited, and this ought to be obvious even to the enemies of French psychoanalysis. For shame for supporting such obvious idiocy and hackery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70588497141985783272012-05-21T07:53:17.194-07:002012-05-21T07:53:17.194-07:00Talk about arrogance...Talk about arrogance...João Barretonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-40858568441094329942012-05-20T11:56:49.917-07:002012-05-20T11:56:49.917-07:00"The beliefs have the hard skin" as we c..."The beliefs have the hard skin" as we can say in french. Thank you so much to help us by writing. We are still fighting to make our country change. Here in France, the country of the freedom, the evidence is denied ! The situation is worse than the shame for autistic peolple and their families, it's a tragedy.Josianenoreply@blogger.com