2026-10-04 History of Autism: Landmarks, Concepts and Transformations
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,…
