Constructing a social subject: autism and human sociality in the 1980s

This article examines three key aetiological theories of autism (meta-representations, executive dysfunction and weak central coherence), which emerged within cognitive psychology in the latter half of the 1980s. Drawing upon Foucault’s notion of ‘forms of possible knowledge’, and in particular his...

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Main Author: Hollin, Gregory
Format: Article
Published: Sage 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3607/