ISSN: 2642-6250
Authors: Pinho RCM*
The term autism has an atypical history. Named in 1906 by Plouller when studying the thought processes of patients with a diagnosis of dementia, the term was only disseminated in 1911 by a report from Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who indicated it to be one of the fundamental symptoms of schizophrenia [1]. Eugene Bleulerinitially described autism in 1911as a disturbance characterized by an alteration in the relationships that normally exist between the inner world and outer environment [2,3]. Over-emphasis on the former constitutes autism. In autism with some intensity, the affected individual maintains insufficient contact with the environment, avoids social relations and lives in a fantasy world in which desires are taken to be satisfied and fears and persecutions are taken to be true.
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