Autism: Explaining the Enigma

Autism: Explaining the Enigma

Author	Uta Frith
Language	English
Subject	Autism
Genre	Science
Publisher	Blackwell Publishing
Publication date	1989 2003 (second edition)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Hardcover, Paperback
ISBN	0-631-22901-9
OCLC	50404148
Dewey Decimal	618.92/8982 21
LC Class	RJ506.A9 F695 2003
Followed by	Autism – Mind and Brain

Autism: Explaining the Enigma is a 1989 nonfiction book by psychologist Uta Frith.

This book provided the first psychological account of what happens in the mind of an autistic person. The book proposed that the key problems for autistic people were an inability to recognize and think about thoughts (theory of mind),^{[ citation needed ]} and an inability to integrate pieces of information into coherent wholes ("weak central coherence"). ^[1] The book outlines neuropsychological research on autism.

See also

• Cognitive psychology

References

1. Frith, Uta (2008). "Weak central coherence (p. 90ff.)". Autism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-1992-0756-5.

External links

• List of the editions on Google Books
• Leekam, Susan R. (May 1991). "Book Review: Autism: Explaining the Enigma". The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 43 (2): 301–302. doi:10.1080/14640749108400972. S2CID   149418391.
• Frith, Uta (October 2014). "Autism - are we any closer to explaining the enigma?". The Psychologist . Vol. 27. British Psychological Society. pp. 744–745.