Was Autism Used to Describe Schizophrenia
According to Bleuler autistic thinking was characterized by infantile wishes to avoid unsatisfying realities and replace them with fantasies and hallucinations. Infantile autism and schizophrenia have been regarded as unrelated and distinct disorders. Rediscovering Disordered Selfhood In Schizophrenia In 1911 Eugen Bleuler used the terminology autistic to describe symptoms of schizophrenia. . In May 2013 the DSM-5 was released updating the classification for pervasive developmental disorders. Stemming from the belief that autism symptoms are caused by diet including those high in gluten biochemical treatments are used and diet supplements and restrictions are put in place for children with autism. Autism and childhood schizophrenia were acknowledged as separate entities and as a result in DSM-III 1980. Although it is now known that autism and schizophrenia are two unrelated disorders autism was not classified as its own di...