Uta Frith, “Exploring Autism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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What Is Artism?
Artism isn't a new phenomenon, it's just newly addressed and labelled. In the past there was a lot of suppression of mental illness in general. People could not easily cope with this kind of problem. There were very big institutions for mentally handicapped children or adults. And they were put out of sight, out of mind. But an artism is a particular case where you couldn't see anything wit the naked eye,. brain seemed perfectly fine so er, we call it dualism. It may be that there are psychological causes, but also physical ones as well. We've only just begun to understand how recent our study of the mind is.
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