| Title |
Toward a Phenomenological Account of Embodied Subjectivity in Autism
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11013-018-9590-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sofie Boldsen |
| Abstract |
Sensorimotor research is currently challenging the dominant understanding of autism as a deficit in the cognitive ability to 'mindread'. This marks an emerging shift in autism research from a focus on the structure and processes of the mind to a focus on autistic behavior as grounded in the body. Contemporary researchers in sensorimotor differences in autism call for a reconciliation between the scientific understanding of autism and the first-person experience of autistic individuals. I argue that fulfilling this ambition requires a phenomenological understanding of the body as it presents itself in ordinary experience, namely as the subject of experience rather than a physical object. On this basis, I investigate how the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty can be employed as a frame of understanding for bodily experience in autism. Through a phenomenological analysis of Tito Mukhopadhyay's autobiographical work, How can I talk if my lips don't move (2009), I illustrate the relevance and potential of phenomenological philosophy in autism research, arguing that this approach enables a deeper understanding of bodily and subjective experiences related to autism. |
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| United Kingdom | 5 | 42% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 42% |
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| Members of the public | 11 | 92% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 20 | 43% |
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| Psychology | 11 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 6% |
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