Autism-Pathology and Psychoanalysis |Biomedgrid

Leo Kanner described the first cases of children with autism in 1943. He noted that they showed markedly reduced responses to the environment, degrees of lack of interest in human beings, avoidance of eye contact with other people and they preferred playing alone than playing accompanied. Over time, the difficulties of children with autism in social communication began to be perceived, manifested in deficits in emotional reciprocity and in non-verbal communication behaviors for social interaction [1].