By Michael D. Shaw February 10, 2014
The term “autism” was first used in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who presumably invoked the Greek autos, meaning “self.” Bleuler was describing the behavior of many schizophrenics, whereby they withdraw into their own inner world. But it was Dr. Leo Kanner, founder of child psychiatry, later assisted by Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who would produce the definitive works on this disease.
In a 1956 paper entitled “Early Infantile Autism 1943–1955,” Kanner and Eisenberg distilled the former’s five diagnostic criteria down to these two features…….
The term “autism” was first used in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who presumably invoked the Greek autos, meaning “self.” Bleuler was describing the behavior of many schizophrenics, whereby they withdraw into their own inner world. But it was Dr. Leo Kanner, founder of child psychiatry, later assisted by Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who would produce the definitive works on this disease.
In a 1956 paper entitled “Early Infantile Autism 1943–1955,” Kanner and Eisenberg distilled the former’s five diagnostic criteria down to these two features…….
By Michael D. Shaw May 20, 2013
Confusion surrounding the term “autism” is surely nothing
new. The word was first used in 1911 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who
presumably invoked the Greek autos, meaning “self.” Bleuler was describing the behavior of
many schizophrenics, whereby they withdraw into their own inner world. But, it
would take the brilliant Dr. Leo Kanner, founder of child psychiatry, to
identify the disease as it is understood today.
His breakthrough paper, entitled “Autistic Disturbances
of Affective Contact,” appeared in 1943. It was hailed by many, not the least
of whom was Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger (Physics 1933), who noted that
Kanner “…thought what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
A
follow-up paper (“Early Infantile Autism 1943–1955″) would appear in 1956, in
which Kanner and his associate Leon Eisenberg elaborated on Kanner’s original
concept of autism and the five features he considered to be diagnostic:……
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