Autism: Explaining the Enigma

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

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

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Frith, Uta (2008). "Weak central coherence (p. 90ff.)". Autism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-1992-0756-9.
  • List of the editions on Google Books
  • Leekam, Susan R. (May 1991). "Book Review: Autism: Explaining the Enigma". The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Experimental Psychology Society. 43 (2): 301–302. doi:10.1080/14640749108400972.
  • Frith, Uta (October 2014). "Autism - are we any closer to explaining the enigma?". The Psychologist. 27. British Psychological Society. pp. 744–745.


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