Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become the rising star of childhood psychiatric disorders. But, says Dr. Timimi, like ADHD, autism and ASD are facts of culture rather than facts of nature.
Sigmund Freud
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Freud is little read today, but he was actually a very engaging and amusing writer who is a joy to read. And in fact, although we are not generally aware of it, Freudian ideas permeate modern consciousness. Indeed, the very idea of consciousness, and its corollary, unconsciousness, was popularized and concretized by Freud.
Another idea developed by Freud which is pretty widely accepted today is that experiences that happen to us as children affect how we behave as adults. It was a pretty unusual idea at the time, when people were often thought of as born into what they are. It s interesting to see how this concept has worked its way into popular consciousness in a distorted form. Think about the whole discourse of repressed memory. The idea here is that very traumatic experiences in childhood, like sexual abuse, can be repressed - that is, pushed into the unconscious - only to suddenly reappear much later in li
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I will explain something really succinctly that has only been hinted at in research: Autism was pioneered by Soviet psychologists who wanted to integrate gifted children who had been marginalized socially. A bit like the movie Elling.
The methods of psychologists like Grunya Sukhareva and Lev Vygotsky were duplicated in parts of Europe that were inspired by the Soviet experiment, including Germany. When the Nazis took over these clinics, people like Hans Asperger steered them in to breeding centers for super-children who were either seen as gifted stewards of the Reich or sent them to be euthanized.
For some reason, this research has only been revealed piecemeal. Despite all the knowledge we have of that era, Hans Asperger s cooperation with the Nazis, which is detailed in the book Asperger s Children by UC Berkeley professor Edith Sheffer, was only revealed in 2012. This led to a swift dropping of the syndrome by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual and articles like Was Autism A Na
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