Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-250) and index.
Contents:
Autism and its compensations -- Autism, schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome -- Savants and savantism -- People people and things people -- Mechanistic or systemizing? -- Deficits in mind -- Not seeing the wood for the trees -- Mind-blindness -- Mentalism -- From attention to intention -- From gaze to grandeur -- Delusions of gaze -- The why and how of passion and persecution -- Conspiracies and magic -- The sense of self in ASD and psychosis -- Cancers of the mind -- Memory, self-deception and candour -- Hyper-mentalism -- Magic and religion -- Mental metastasis -- The battle of the sexes in the brain -- Strange inheritance -- The extreme male brain -- Genomic imprinting -- Imprinting and the brain -- Mother's baby- father's? maybe! -- Sex and psychosis -- The X in psychosis -- Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens -- Handedness, belief, and the brain -- Paranoia and homosexuality -- ASD, PSD, and normality -- Beyond the balanced brain -- The cognitive configuration of genius -- The genius of detective fiction -- Psychotic savants -- The case of Freud -- Therapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory.
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