There has been a massive broadening and evolution of the concept of autism over the past three-quarters of a century. Hans Asperger (1938, 1944) and Leo Kanner (1943) initially described autism. The prevalence of autism depends on whether you use old, narrow,...
Criminal Autistic Psychopathy
The Mind of the Mathematician ( Female) – Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace ( Daughter of Lord Byron)
Ada Byron Daughter of Lord Byron Countess of Lovelace Great female mathematicians are less common than males and are described in this book, the Mind of the Mathematician written by internationally famous mathematician Prof. Ioan James and accomplished...
Is psychotherapy more than friendship?
Is Psychotherapy more than friendship? Is Psychotherapy more than friendship? We have all become familiar with psychotherapists being dubbed ‘expensive friends’ and friends ‘inexpensive therapists’ in recent years. The suggestion that...
Genesis of Artistic Creativity at the National Gallery, Dublin
Genesis of Artistic Creativity & the Yeats Family at the National Gallery, February, 2016 Friends of the National Gallery Prof Michael Fitzgerald presented this slide show to the friends of the National Gallery. The main focus of this presentation is...
Autism and Comedy Symposium – Comedy on the Spectrum
Comedy on the Spectrum A presentation by Prof Michael Fitzgerald at the “Autism and Comedy Symposium” at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Jamuary 2016 Click here to view part of this presentation Comedians with Autism This is a provocative and...
Overlap: Autism and Schizophrenia – Considerable confusion surrounds the overlapping of autism and schizophrenia
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Author: Michael Fitzgerald (Professor of Child Psychiatry, based at Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College, Dublin, UK) Citation: Michael Fitzgerald , (2014) “Overlap between autism and schizophrenia:...
The man who knew Infinity – Ramanujan and Hardy, both has Asperger’s Syndrome
Autism and Creativity is a stimulating study of male creativity and autism, arguing that a major genetic endowment is a prerequisite of genius, and that cultural and environmental factors are less significant than has often been claimed. Chapters on the diagnosis and...
Mass Killers – Can we identify a mass killer e.g. pilot, school shooter etc. in advance?
These are extremely rare events and it is almost impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy rare events. Nevertheless, we must try but at the same time realise that many of the individual features of the profile I describe about potential mass killers are not...
The Mind of the Artist – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Asperger Syndrome & Depression
This is a provocative and novel investigation of the psyches of sixty artists, predominantly from the world of film, theatre and television/radio – writers, actors, producers and directors ranging from Shakespeare and Voltaire to major late-twentieth-century...