Bibliograph

American normal, the hidden world of Asperger syndrome, Lawrence Osborne

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American normal, the hidden world of Asperger syndrome, Lawrence Osborne

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-123) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American normal

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Osborne

Review

"In this highly personal first-hand report on the world of the "mindblind," Lawrence Osborne doesn't shy away from hard questions: Just how different from the "normal" are those with Asperger's, and is it possible that most of us have more than a few of its characteristics already woven into our psyches? Setting aside the humdrum pieties of medicine and rehabilitation, Osborne casts a skeptical and witty eye on the American psychiatric establishment and its tendency to over-diagnose, then over-medicate. And even more, he ventures into the elusive but essential realm where one has to question the difference between tolerating eccentricity - with all its potential for creativity as well as suffering - and pharmacologically enforcing normality, with its undertones of blandness, uniformity, and mediocrity."--BOOK JACKET

Sub title

the hidden world of Asperger syndrome

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PREFACE Vii --INTRODUCTION ix --CHAPTER 1: ASPERGER AND I --CHAPTER 2: LITTLE PROFESSORS 37 --CHAPTER 3: THE LAST PURITAN 85 --CHAPTER 4: RAIN MEN 111 --CHAPTER 5: DIAGNOSING JEFFERSON 127 --CHAPTER 6: AUTIBIOGRAPHIES 151 --CHAPTER 7: THE POETICS OF MEDICINE 177 --NOTES 205 --BIBLIOGRAPHY 212 --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 214 --INDEX 215

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