Becoming autistic: an aut-ethnography

Author/s
Damian E. M. Milton
Citation
Issue 4 Summer 2014
CEPiP.2014.1.185-192
Abstract

"I know that I exist, the question is: what is this ‘I’ that I know?" (Rene Descartes).

Notions of personality, selfhood and identity have been debated and analysed throughout human history by ancient philosophers through to postmodernist social theorists. A bewildering array of ideas have been formulated to help people come to terms with who they are, their position in the social world, and their aspirations for the future.

Cite as: Cutting Edge Psychiatry in Practice 2014, 4(1):185-192; https://doi.org/10.65031/sxno8341

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