History of autism. The beginnings. Collusions or serendipity
The article presents the first years of the autism and the way it was viewed since the autistic features were first observed until 75 years ago when Leo Kanner coined the term “autism”. It took 36 years to Kanner’s “infantile autism” to be formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Associatio...
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West University of Timisoara
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| description | The article presents the first years of the autism and the way it was viewed since the autistic features
were first observed until 75 years ago when Leo Kanner coined the term “autism”. It took 36 years to
Kanner’s “infantile autism” to be formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in the
third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (APA, 1980). Fifty years after Hans Asperger
published his four cases of “autistic psychopaths”, whose traits were described as early as 1938 in his
postdoctoral thesis, APA introduced the Asperger syndrome in the fourth edition of DSM(1994).
However, two decades before Kanner and Asperger, a Russian psychiatrist, Grunia Sukhareva, reported
six cases of “schizoid psychopathy” in children and used the term autistic to describe their “tendency
towards solitude and avoidance of other people” (Wolff, 1996, p. 129). We bring together three recent
extensive accounts on autism history and try to establish who was the first to observe, describe, and
label the autistic traits as a separate clinical picture from childhood schizophrenia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f89cfd7ee0234ec0b1954ca61808028e2022-12-22T00:27:30ZengWest University of TimisoaraRevista de Știinţe Educaţiei1454-76782457-86732018-12-0138251710.35923/JES.2018.2.01History of autism. The beginnings. Collusions or serendipityAL GHAZI Loredana0West University of TimisoaraThe article presents the first years of the autism and the way it was viewed since the autistic features were first observed until 75 years ago when Leo Kanner coined the term “autism”. It took 36 years to Kanner’s “infantile autism” to be formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (APA, 1980). Fifty years after Hans Asperger published his four cases of “autistic psychopaths”, whose traits were described as early as 1938 in his postdoctoral thesis, APA introduced the Asperger syndrome in the fourth edition of DSM(1994). However, two decades before Kanner and Asperger, a Russian psychiatrist, Grunia Sukhareva, reported six cases of “schizoid psychopathy” in children and used the term autistic to describe their “tendency towards solitude and avoidance of other people” (Wolff, 1996, p. 129). We bring together three recent extensive accounts on autism history and try to establish who was the first to observe, describe, and label the autistic traits as a separate clinical picture from childhood schizophrenia.https://rse.uvt.ro/pdf/2018/Nr2_update/1.pdfinfantile autismasperger syndromeschizoid psychopathy |
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| title | History of autism. The beginnings. Collusions or serendipity |
| title_full | History of autism. The beginnings. Collusions or serendipity |
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| title_short | History of autism. The beginnings. Collusions or serendipity |
| title_sort | history of autism the beginnings collusions or serendipity |
| topic | infantile autism asperger syndrome schizoid psychopathy |
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