The Imprinted Brain
How Genes Set the Balance Between Autism and Psychosis
Christopher Badcock
Hardback: £19.99 / $29.95
2009, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-023-4, BIC 2: YQS
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Preface. Introduction. 1. Autism and Its Compensations: Autism, Schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome. Savants and savantism.People people and things people. Mechanistic or systemizing? 2. Deficits in Mind: Not seeing the wood for the trees.Mind-blindness. Mentalism. From attention to intention 3. From Gaze to Grandeur: Delusions of gaze. The why and how of passion and persecution. Conspiracies and magic. The sense of self in ASD and psychosis.4. Cancers of the Mind: Memory, self-deception and candour. Hyper-mentalism. Magic and religion. Mental metastasis. 5. The Battle of the Sexes in the Brain: Strange inheritance. The extreme male brain. Selfish genius. The paternal and maternal brains. Mother's baby—father's? Maybe!6. Sex and Psychosis: The X in psychosis. Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens. Handedness, belief, and the brain. Paranoia and homosexuality. ASD, PSD, and normality. 7. Genius, Madness and Psychotherapy: The cognitive configuration of genius. The genius of detective fiction. Psychotic savants. The case of Freud. Beyond the talking cure. References.
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Subject areas
- Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes
- Psychiatry and Psychology
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