Drawing on sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of brain function, in this article we
construe psychiatric conditions as disorders of social interaction to fully account for their …

The philosophical and interdisciplinary debate about the nature of social cognition, and the
processes involved, has important implications for psychiatry. On one account, mindreading …

I argue that theory theory approaches to autism offer a wholly inadequate explanation of
autistic symptoms because they offer a wholly inadequate account of the non-autistic …

Autism and schizophrenia share a history of diagnostic conflation that was not definitively
resolved until the publication of the DSM-III in 1980. Though now recognized as …

Diagnosis and individualized treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represent major
problems for contemporary psychiatry. Tackling these problems requires guidance by a …

The most dominant theory of human social cognition, the theory of mind hypothesis,
emphasizes our ability to infer the mental states of others. After having represented the …

A primary feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is marked difficulty in social
interactions. Despite the centrality of social interaction differences to the clinical presentation …

Autistic people are neurologically divergent, yet approaches to studying autism are framed
by neurotypical definitions of being social. Using the concept of intersubjectivity, which …

Typically, although it's notoriously hard to define, autism has been represented as a
biologically-based mental disorder that can be usefully investigated by biomedical science …

1902 Autism 26 (8) to explore. Current work shows that in brief encounters autistic people
are routinely perceived more negatively than their non-autistic peers in terms of being less …