The Imprinted Brain

How genes set the balance between autism and psychosis.

Christopher Robert Badcock, Ph.D. is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics. See full bio

October 31, 2009

Chimps-R-Not-Us

On the evidence of a single photo many people think that chimps think like us—but that’s because they are thinking like people, not like chimps.

September 5, 2009

Product-withdrawal Notice: I was wrong about Freud

Psychoanalysis was never without its critics, but until a few years ago I was not one of them. On the contrary, with the single-mindedness and immunity to criticism that is characteristic of those with an autistic turn of mind, I ignored it all and went my own way believing that ultimately developments elsewhere in science would vindicate Freud—and wrote several books to prove it. Read More

August 21, 2009

The Symmetry of Savantism

If there are autistic savants, new insights from evolutionary genetics and psychiatry suggest there ought also to be psychotic ones who have escaped recognition until now, thanks to their mentalistic expertise and superb inter-personal skills. However, there could be a problem... Read More

May 8, 2009

Hyper-mentalism: an insight whose time has come

Paranoid delusions being the opposite of autistic deficits looks obvious once you have seen it and suggests that hyper-mentalism is set to join natural selection as one of the self-evident—if controversial—insights of the modern world. Read More

April 30, 2009

Nature on genes and autism: nurture may not be so different!

The genes implicated in autism are beginning to be found, but nurture as well as nature plays a role according to a new theory of the causes of mental illness. Read More

April 24, 2009

The Book Bill Hamilton Should Have Written

Bill Hamilton was not only the originator of the selfish gene idea. A new book develops his insights into a general theory of mental illness rooted in genetic conflict. Read More

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