Developmental psychopathology and neuropsychology in children.

Child psychopathology and neuropsychology constitute complementary theoretical and methodological approaches When investigating infantile disorders, suffering and methods of adaptation. It seems clear that clinicians should henceforth attempt to integrate these approaches into their evaluative and therapeutic practices. After briefly putting into perspective these contrasting epistemological positions, we attempt-to illustrate this integrative approach by evoking the clinical, developmental case history of a child suffering from epilepsy from an early age and displaying autistic type, deficiencies in their cognitive and social functioning.