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Main description:
In this unique text a prominent critic of mainstream child and adolescent psychiatric theory and practice, Sami Timimi, collaborates with two ex-service users to re-examine, deconstruct and critique modern mainstream theory and practice in relation to autism. They track changes in the conceptualisation of autism in the West from a rare disorder affecting a small number of individuals with moderate to severe learning difficulties to becoming a broad continuum mainly diagnosed in males deemed to have poor social or emotional competence. Arguing that this change is primarily ideological -- the result of a change in the way we think about social and emotional competence, rather than any new scientific discovery -- the authors illustrate how the medicalisation of boys' and men's social and emotional behaviour has a close relationship to social, political, economic, and cultural changes that have occurred in Western culture in recent decades. Their conclusion is controversial- the concept of Autism has become a hindrance rather than a help and so our whole approach to the diagnosis needs re-consideration, including the possibility that this diagnosis has gone past its sell-by date and should be abandoned.
Contents:
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction The Missing Voices: Our Case Histories PART TWO: AUTISM - THE HISTORIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT The History of Autism Cult of Child Development PART THREE: AUTISM - THE SCIENCE Biological Evidence Classification The Problem of Heterogeneity Treatment PART FOUR: AUTISM - POLITICS AND SOCIETY Gender Culture and Socialization The New Eugenics
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Publisher: Macmillan Education (Palgrave Macmillan)
Publication date: October, 2010
Pages: 344
Dimensions: 137.00 x 206.00 x 20.00
Weight: 425g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Psychiatry