Understanding Other Minds
Published on 1. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-19-262056-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on a recent, important psychological theory of autism, the `theory of mind' hypothesis, which states that children with autism are unable to comprehend other people's mental states. A very controversial subject which relates to the most fundamental questions of normal developmental as well as autism itself. This book is intended for third-year undergraduates in developmental psychology, child psychiatrists, philosophers of mind, cognitive psychologists.
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New edition
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-19-262056-9 (9780192620569)
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Content
Part I: Introduction; An introduction to the debate; Early understanding of the mind: the normal case; Social development in autism: historical and clinical perspectives; Part II: The theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism: the cognitive approach; From attention-goal psychology to belief-desire psychology: the development of a theory of mind, and its dysfunction; What autism teaches us about metarepresentation; The theory-of-mind deficit in autism: rethinking the metarepresentation theory; What language reveals about the understanding of minds in children with autism; The theory-of-mind deficit in autism: evidence from deception; Part III: The theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism: critical perspectives; The theory-of-mind and joint-attention deficits in autism; Understanding persons: the role of affect; Pretending and planning; Narrative language in autism and the theory-of-mind hypothesis: a wider perspective; Theories of mind and the problem of autism; The complexity of social behaviour in autism; The development of individuals with autism: implications for the theory-of-mind hypothesis; Part IV: Wider perspectives; The role of imitation in understanding persons and developing a theory of mind; Evolving a theory of mind: the nature of non-verbal mentalism in other primates; The comparative study of early communication and theories of mind: ontogeny, phylogeny, and pathology; Autism and the theory of mind: some philosophical perspectives; Desire and fantasy: a psychoanalytic perspective on the theory of mind and autism; The theory-of-mind deficit in autism: some questions for teaching and diagnosis; The place of this book in autism research.