Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Children (Pediatric Habilitation)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780824750619
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Neuroscience; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pediatrics; Mental Illness; Neurology - General; Medical / Neurology; Autism in children; Autistic children; Rehabilitation
First sentence: The term autism, meaning "living in self" (in Greek aut means self, and ism refers to a state), was coined by a Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler, in 1911, to describe self-absorption due to poor social relatedness in schizophrenia (1).