A Different Conversation
Psychological Research and the Problem of Self in Autism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6071284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandra Fasulo (0000-0003-4464-3895, University of Portsmouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 611-631 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1932-4502 • E-ISSN: 1936-3567 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12124-019-09506-2 |
| PMID | 31758314 |
| OpenAlex | W2991323108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 59 |
Observations about peculiarities in the autistic population concerning type and frequency of references to subjective states, and lack of perspective taking, have been on the whole referred to as the paradox of the autistic self, i.e. a co-presence of ego-centeredness and weak self-referentiality (Lombardo & Baron Cohen 2010). Prevalent approaches in autism ascribe these peculiarities to high order disfunctions caused by neurological factors, such as defective self-encoding processes. Two narratives told by an adult man with Asperger during counselling are examined with Conversation Analysis; the analysis identifies features that may lead to descriptions like the paradox of autistic self, but also reveals competences related to perspective-taking and narrative construction. Drawing on Bruner’s narrative theory, as well on recent interactional research on autism and the psychology of self, it is suggested that a relatively limited practice with narrative co-construction might be at the origin of the peculiarities observed. A socio-developmental approach to the understanding of autism not only can provide explanations compatible with first and second person accounts of life with autism, but can also open new paths for researching ways of self-construction that are less reliant on social interaction. The article finally challenges assumptions in psychological research about the ability of humans to access their internal states, and discusses how such assumptions can deter understanding of atypical populations
Autism · Cognitive psychology · Conversation · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Linguistics · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Population · Self · Sociology · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Communication · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Structures of Social Action
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
The Handbook of Conversation Analysis
How Infants Know Minds
Autistic expertise
Toward a second-person neuroscience
Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction
Studies in ethnomethodology
The social construction of reality
Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts
Talk at work
Conversation Analysis
Mutuality in Mother-Infant Interaction
The emergence of a shared action ontology
Narrative Analysis
Inclusion as Social Practice
Family Narrative as Political Activity
The development of narrative identity in late adolescence and emergent adulthood
Narrative Conjunctions of Caregiver and Child
Well-prefaced turns in English conversation
Jerome Seymour Bruner
Audience diversity, participation and interpretation
Humans, aliens & autism
Assisted storytelling
Detective Stories At Dinnertime
Conversational Remembering and Family Relationships
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
Social Actions, Gestalt Coherence, and Designations of Disability
How to Go On
Autism and The Ethics of Care
A Phenomenological Approach to the Cultivation of Expertise
Repair After Next Turn
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |