Autismology
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2026-10-04 The history of autism does not begin in 1943 with Leo Kanner, nor in 1911 with Eugen Bleuler, nor even when the word “autism” first appears in the psychiatric literature. People displaying some of the characteristics that we now associate with autism obviously existed long before a medical category was created to describe them. What societies, physicians,…
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2026-09-20 In August 2026, Uta Frith, a historic figure in cognitive autism research, published an editorial in Psychological Medicine asking whether “autism spectrum disorder” has lost part of its meaning and whether it can lead to misdiagnosis. Her article appears in a context in which the number of diagnoses has risen sharply, many adults are being identified…
Other approaches 2026-09-05 Purpose: to preserve and explain precisely the main scientific and theoretical notions discussed in the September 2026 work. Scope: clinical framework, heterogeneity, genetics, syndromic and non-syndromic autism, work by Laurent Mottron,…
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Other approaches 2026-09-04 Historical reference points, paradigm shifts, controversies and critical reading The guiding thread is simple: the word “autism” originated within the psychiatry of schizophrenia, was then taken up by child psychiatry, and was gradually…
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Autismological approach Understanding autism independently of pre-existing frameworks and using that understanding to improve real-life situations. On this website, we propose Autismology as an independent framework for understanding, explaining, transmitting…
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