Autisms

Autism is a hot-button issue right now – with public awareness and media coverage of the condition at an all-time high, and 1.2 million people in the UK currently waiting to be tested for it, while Donald Trump rails against Tylenol (paracetamol) as a supposed ‘cause’.

But what is autism? There is no single clinical picture and there is a radical split in the way it might be perceived – as a pathology, or as an identity. Should we think instead about autisms (plural)?
What does the current data tell us – and what does historic research tell us? What are the common processes we find in autisms? And how might autisms be treated.

These are the questions Darian addresses in Autisms, bringing to bear his many years of clinical experience, his deep reading of the research literature, and his trademark clarity and concision.