The imprinted brain : how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis / Christopher Badcock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badcock, C. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autism--Genetic aspects.

Autism.

Psychoses--Genetic aspects.

Psychoses.

Genomic imprinting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Badcock sets out a radical new theory of the mind based on the recent discovery of genomic imprinting. He uses psychiatric case material to show how many of the symptoms of psychosis can be shown to be the mental mirror-images of those of autism. This new theory casts intriguing new light on topics such as the nature of genius.

Contents:

FRONT COVER; The Imprinted Brain How Genes Set the Balance Between Autism and Psychosis; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Autism and Its Compensations; Autism, schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome; Savants and savantism; People people and things people; Mechanistic or systemizing?; Chapter 2 Deficits in Mind; Not seeing the wood for the trees; Mind-blindness; Mentalism; From attention to intention; Chapter 3 From Gaze to Grandeur; Delusions of gaze; The why and how of passion and persecution; Conspiracies and magic; The sense of self in ASD and psychosis

Chapter 4 Cancers of the MindMemory, self-deception, and candour; Hyper-mentalism; Magic and religion; Mental metastasis; Chapter 5 The Battle of the Sexes in the Brain; Strange inheritance; The extreme male brain; Genomic imprinting; Imprinting and the brain; Mother's baby-father's? Maybe!; Chapter 6 Sex and Psychosis; The X in psychosis; Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens; Handedness, belief, and the brain; Paranoia and homosexuality; ASD, PSD, and normality; Chapter 7 Beyond the Balanced Brain; The cognitive configuration of genius; The genius of detective fiction; Psychotic savants

The case of FreudTherapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612297502

9781282297500

1282297503

9781846429507

1846429501

OCLC:

459731971