ABSTRACT
This paper is based on clinical material from analysis of a 28-month-old girl who developed an autistic syndrome as a reaction to a traumatic situation. I shall deal here only with three aspects: (1) the patient’s peculiar way of communicating, (2) the use made of this peculiar communicating mode for the technical approach, and (3) the social context in which the therapeutic process took place and its influence on the analytic field.
