Growing interest has recently been devoted to partial forms of autism, lying at the diagnostic boundaries of those conditions previously diagnosed as Asperger’s Disorder. This latter includes an important retrieval of the European classical psychopathological concepts of adult autism to which Hans Asperger referred in his work. Based on the review of Asperger's Autistische Psychopathie, from first descriptions through the DSM-IV Asperger’s Disorder and up to the recent DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, the paper aims to propose a Subthreshold Autism Spectrum Model that encompasses not only threshold-level manifestations but also mild/atypical symptoms, gender-specific features, behavioral manifestations and personality traits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This model includes, but is not limited to, the so-called broad autism phenotype spanning across the general population that does not fully meet Autism Spectrum Disorder criteria. From this perspective, we propose a subthreshold autism as a unique psychological/behavioral model for research that could help to understand the neurodevelopmental trajectories leading from autistic traits to a broad range of mental disorders.
Il film, diretto da Ryan Murphy (2006) e tratto dal libro autobiografico di Augusten Burroughs (2002), mostra i comportamenti e le modalitŕ relazionali di diversi personaggi ascrivibili all'area "borderline": la crisi adolescenziale d'identitŕ, i problemi di separazione e attaccamento, la sessualizzazione, la ricerca di un contesto ambientale vivibile (metafora dell'"adozione"), la ribellione verso figure di attaccamento ambivalentemente idealizzate, le derive psicotiche. Al centro di queste dinamiche vi č il Dr. Finch, bizzarro psicoanalista post-freudiano, attore di gravi infrazioni dele di altre forme diin parte necessarie per gestire la sua "famiglia allargata", una sorta di "comunitŕ terapeutica" costituita da pazienti, figli naturali e adottivi. Questo gruppo, mantenuto da una idealizzazione del terapeuta, si disgrega lentamente consentendo ad Augusten, per contrasto, di elaborare la propria crisi adolescenziale.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.