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Démences et autismes : résonances psychopathologiques Volume 81, issue 9, Novembre 2005

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* Psychiatre des hôpitaux, Le Moulin de Madame, 47300 Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

Dementia and autism: psychopathological resonances.Comparing two pathologies as different as autism and dementia might appear surprising. It can be envisaged if these entities are considered in a psychopathological perspective, distributed along three axes whose interlinking constitutes the main clinical tableau: cognitive disorders marked by the disjunction of procedural and declarative memories, defence mechanisms set into action by the psychic apparatus, the disorders of an unorganized or disorganized subjectivity in a common subjective failure. Such a structure could be proposed to describe the whole of mental pathology since clinical study of both dementia and autism demonstrates to the limits that all clinical study can only be that of the subject and intersubjectivity.