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01-10-2012 | Letter to the Editor

‘History and First Descriptions’ of Autism: A response to Michael Fitzgerald

Auteur: Nick Chown

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 10/2012

Abstract

Letter to the editor in response to Michael Fitzgerald’s controversial allegation that one of the two pioneers of autism—Leo Kanner—may have been influenced by an earlier paper by the other autism pioneer—Hans Asperger—without acknowledging the debt, and that Kanner may even have been guilty of plagiarising Asperger. In correspondence, Professor Fitzgerald has suggested that I “consider doing my take on the matter”. This is it.

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Lyons and Fitzgerald, referring to a paper published by Schirmer in Germany in 2002, state that “Asperger gave a lecture in the Vienna University Hospital on October 3, 1938 describing the characteristics of ‘autistic psychopathy’ based on his case studies” (Lyons and Fitzgerald 2007, p. 2022).

I think Quayson refers to Asperger, not Kanner (or both), because he considers Beckett to have had Asperger’s syndrome; I don’t think he is taking sides in the ‘who came first, Asperger or Kanner’ debate!

Asperger, H. (1938). Das psychisch abnormale kind. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 51, 1314–1317.

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Feinstein, A. (2010). A history of autism: Conversations with the pioneers. London: Blackwell.CrossRef

Fitzgerald, M. (2008a). Autism: Asperger’s syndrome—History and first descriptions, In J. L. Rausch, M. E. Johnson, & M. F. Casanova (Eds.), Asperger’s disorder. New York: Informa Healthcare.

Fitzgerald, M. (2008b). Creativity, psychosis, autism and the social brain. Last accessed 25 November 2011 at: http://www.intechopen.com/source/pdfs/20041/InTech-Creativity_psychosis_autism_and_the_social_brain.pdf [online].

Kanner, L. (1943). Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nervous Child, 2, 217–250.

Lyons, V., & Fitzgerald, M. (2007). Asperger (1906–1980) and Kanner (1894–1981), the two pioneers of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 2022–2023.PubMedCrossRef

Morgan, H. (undated). Setting the scene—An introduction to autism and related disorders. Last accessed 25 November 2011 at: http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:zop2bPNQdTkJ:scholar.google.com/+biography+%22leo+kanner%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 [online].

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Quayson, A. (2010). Autism, narrative, and emotions: On Samuel Beckett’s Murphy. University of Toronto Quarterly, 79(2), 838–864.CrossRef

Skuse, D. H. (2011). The extraordinary political world of autism. Brain, 134(8), 2436–2439.CrossRef

Titel: ‘History and First Descriptions’ of Autism: A response to Michael Fitzgerald
Auteur: Nick Chown
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 10/2012
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1529-5

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