![]() ![]() (You can find the bibliography on Steve Silberman’s website). ![]() ![]() There is certainly potential to publish a “post-Neurotribes” edition of Neurotribes, in a shorter, less polemical and more factual form, with a bibliography. This is not a criticism of the author or book, but of the expectations raised by over-enthusiastic reviewers. It expresses opinions and perspectives that are (and should be) subjective, but not in a form that would appear in a textbook. I think uncritical appraisals serve the reader and the author badly - Neurotribes is a war-cry, a demand for recognition, and a work of advocacy written in a narrative style. Neurotribes is definitely a publishing phenomenon and has been accompanied by a vast number of gushing, enthusiastic and uncritical reviews. ![]() The amalgamation of Asperger syndrome into autism spectrum disorder within the DSM-5 in 2013 rewrote the definition of autism and Steve Silberman delineates the new landscape of the autistic spectrum and its population. This is an important book and, above all, a book of the now - some commentators have talked about the creation of a “pre-Neurotribes” and a “post-Neurotribes” public understanding of autism, which is probably correct. ![]()
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