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The ABC of the Diametric Model, Twenty Years On" by Christopher Badcock,
Psychology Today, July 5, 2017
As I pointed out in a recent post, what
is today known as the diametric model of the mind and mental illness
was stunningly anticipated by Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974) in his
novel, Voyage to Kazohinia, first published in Hungarian in 1941. To the best of my knowledge, this is the earliest anticipation of the idea that autism and psychosis might be opposites—despite the author seemingly knowing nothing of autism or of the work of Hans Asperger, who was about to publish his first account of Autistichen Psychopathen im Kindesalter in wartime Austria.
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