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68 published posts on psychoanalysis, film, and culture.

Autism ·

Lacan Circle of Australia Special Event

I'm very excited to have a talk with Jonathan Redmond on the topic of autism this Sunday's 4th of July 10am Berlin time. This will be a talk arranged by the Lacan Circle of Australia.…

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Autism ·

Hardcover for 19.99€ with code BEST20PAL

Hi again. So, the holiday season brings with it a huge discount on my book The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language in (its very serious) hardcover version. If you are interested in holding…

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Autism ·

My new book for 11.99€

Dear readers. Palgrave.com has provided a new deal for the purchase of a PDF version of my book on autism: The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. Until tomorrow (3rd of December 2020) you…

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Autism ·

Library Talk at IPU Berlin

On the 3rd of December, 8:00PM Berlin time, Dr. Peter Schneider and I will have an online discussion on contemporary approaches to autism at the International Psychoanalytic University's (IPU). In this LIVE online event, we…

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Autism ·

Video Interview on The Autistic Subject

This week my interview with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair was published in her podcast Rendering Unconscious and on YouTube. In the interview I talk about segments of my new book on autism and about my personal…

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Autism ·

Autistic Writers

Here is a short talk on the singularity of autistic writing. It is quite clear that the approach of autistic writers to autism is very different than the approach of psychotic writers to psychosis. In…

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Autism ·

Autistic Sameness: Lacan with Amanda Baggs

Leo Kanner, an American psychologist, was one of the first practitioners to differentiate what we know today as "autism" from the field of childhood psychosis. Assessing a variety of characteristics in the behaviour of his…

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