Autistic disturbances of affective contact : 1943 : Leo Kanner

Published Nervous Child 2 (1943): pp. 217-250

Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Kanner)

Citations

Éric Laurent in Tel Aviv GIEP – NLS (Israël), via Zoom, on 8^th July 2023, following the translation of his book …

La bataille de l’autisme

De la clinique à la politique

[The battle of autism – from the clinical to the political]

… into Hebrew, during a presentation, discussion and clinical cases, cited this paper. He noted that from Kanner’s clinic, mainly drawn from wealthy parents, he concluded that his patients shared a passion for solitude and sameness. This paper, though seminal in defining autism, draws from the clinical.

Bruno de Florence, in his paper given in London on 30^th June 2012, places autism in the context where it developed. See ‘French context of Autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of Autism’ : 30^th June 2012 (London) : Bruno de Florence in www.LacanianWorks.org /1 A Lacanian Clinic (autism)