How autism became autism
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How autism became autism
This article argues that the meaning of the word 'autism' experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in epidemiological and statistical studies in child psychiatry. The first part of the article explores how 'autism' was used as a category to describe hallucinations and unconscious fantasy life in infants through the work of significant chi...
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عنوان ژورنال: History of the Human Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0952-6951,1461-720X
DOI: 10.1177/0952695113484320