The hypertext also contains some useful information on the subject, such as the addresses of the most important specialist centres in Italy, Internet sites, tutorial courses and seminaries. You may also find in this section of the hypertext a document that summarize in a very synthetic way what autism is, what are its causes and how it can be treated. For those approaching this subject for their first time and those who want a neat global vision of it, it is better to start reading the hypertext from this section. The section named Classifications and Definitions of Autism and Infantile Psychoses aims at identifying the subject matter of this study so that everybody can share the information contained. In the section named Concept of Infantile Psychoses , we discuss some of the most important attempts to explain Autism and Infantile Psychoses.
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We tried to display the most complete range of publications, without taking into account that some of them are now considered outdated by the scientific community and the family associations. The same applies to the Treatments here described. We have described the most commonly known methods, regardless to whether they are outdated or not. For every kind of treatment there is an annotated bibliography , which completes the general one. The Hypertext allows partial or total searches simply by clicking with the mouse on the subject matter of interest and paging through its links.