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Multifactorial model: multidimensional psychotherapy Volume 15, issue 3, Juillet-Août-Septembre 2012

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Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades, service de pédopsychiatrie, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France

In this article, the basics of the multifactorial model as a plausible hypothesis in the field of infantile autism is outlined and multidimensional treatment for this pathology is discussed as a necessary consequence. Psychotherapy remains highly important, not in terms of cause or causes of autism, but as a means of support for the mental suffering associated, on the one hand, with being autistic and, on the other, with the release process itself. Professional training allows psychotherapists and psychoanalysts to talk about the child's emotions, to put words to his or her concerns, and to help build up the child's body ego, which supports the child to access intersubjectivity.