Topic
- webinar of 45 minutes, including time for questions
- about the Austrian-American child psychiatrist Georg(e) Frankl
- who influenced Leo Kanner’s and Hans Asperger’s theory of autism
- by introducing the idea of contact disorders in childhood
- in the period 1935-1943
Target audience
- university students and researchers interested in autism, child psychiatry in general
- this presentation is in English
Speaker
- Frederik Boven, PhD
- is psychologist and philosopher
- has written a doctoral thesis entitled Solitary Persons? The Conceptualisation of Autism as a Contact Disorder by Frankl, Asperger, and Kanner.
- is director of the autistic-led foundation Autism Digital
- is editor of the Dutch autism journal WTA
- has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome as adult
Date and time
- February 24th, 2022
- 20:00 – 20:45 CET