Abstract
Asperger syndrome – whatever it is – cannot be dismissed at the drop of a hat as 'mild autism' and thereby relegated to the status of eccentricities in a textbook on child psychiatry. Since the seminal paper by Wing (1981), interest and work in the field have so grown that one senses the presence of a true diagnostic entity – at least from the clinical point of view – which for many years has haunted child and adult psychiatrists alike, variously alluded to as 'autism in high-functioning individuals', 'MBD (minimal brain dysfunction) with autistic traits', 'borderline personality', 'schizoid personality disorder' or 'schizotypal personality disorder'.
Keywords
PsychologyAutismAsperger syndromePersonalityBig Five personality traitsPsychiatryClinical psychologyDevelopmental psychologyPsychoanalysis
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Christopher Gillberg
(1991).
Clinical and neurobiological aspects of Asperger syndrome in six family studies.
Cambridge University Press eBooks
, 122-146.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526770.004
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- 10.1017/cbo9780511526770.004