Shaky Ground
Adam Phillips: Autism and Madness, 23 February 2012
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors and the History of a Disorder
by Chloe Silverman.
Princeton, 360 pp., £24.95, November 2011,978 0 691 15046 8 Show More
by Chloe Silverman.
Princeton, 360 pp., £24.95, November 2011,
What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader.
Hamish Hamilton, 359 pp., £20, October 2011,978 0 241 14488 6 Show More
by Darian Leader.
Hamish Hamilton, 359 pp., £20, October 2011,
“... for example, it isn’t a pathology at all but just a different way of seeing the world. For Darian Leader, the diagnosis and treatment of madness is something we need to get right, and getting it right means using his preferred version of psychoanalysis. Silverman is interested in how agreement is reached about autism, what it is, and what therapy ... ”
