Autism and Mental Health: Continuum and Boundary Approaches

This interdisciplinary seminar will build on the success of the 2018 ‘Autism, Anthropology and Lived Experience’ symposium jointly hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and Scottish Autism. The seminar will explore where autism and mental health paradigms form a continuum and where they might be bounded in diagnostic categories, support provision and contemporary discourse. The event will give voice to lived experience and take an interdisciplinary approach. We will ask what a critical engagement between anthropology and other disciplines might produce in understanding this relationship.