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Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme as a Social-Psychiatric Game—Autism and Metaphysics




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Lehel Simon,Levente Szilágyi, Anna Csetverikov

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2015.03.002

The lack of emotional relations is not replaced by the “savant” characteristics (see Asperger syndrome) but by their immersing into stereotypic instincts. In other words, they compensate their divergent intrinsic emotions with imitated convergences (eg., the monotonous “convergence obsessed” logic of hammering, wringing hands etc.) Today’s science cannot declare this to be convergent, especially for the fact that psychotic autist patients prove to be weak at convergence, but the male/female proportion reflects on notable facts (with Kanner syndrome it is 3:1 or 4:1, while Rett syndrome only affects females). Can we declare Kanner and Rettsyndromes to be basically female brain disorders? Asperger-autism has been scientifically considered as a type of “male-brain disorder” since 1991 (Baron-Cohen theory). The proportion of male-female is approximately 6:1 with this disease. The author would like to demonstrate a very special case, the Asperger-autism as a “cognitive autism.” It is common to address autistic disorder as “pervasive” or “comprehensive” ontogenetic disorders because they affect all areas of adolescent psychological development negatively. But as the expression itself suggests, we are not aware of the specific disorders directly. As it will turn outwe cannot deal with autism as on complex disorder, we should rather use the term in plural, i.e., autisms and autistic disorders. 

psychology, philosophy of mind, Autism, gender studies, social psychiatry