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Michael Fitzgerald is an Irish psychiatrist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, in Ireland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= ProfessorMichaelFitzgerald.eu )〕 As of 2005, he said he had diagnosed over 900 individuals with Asperger syndrome. He is the husband of Frances Fitzgerald, the Irish Minister for Justice and Equality.〔()〕 ==Views on autism== In an interview with ''The Daily Telegraph'', Fitzgerald shared his views on autism: "Psychiatric disorders can also have positive dimensions. I'm arguing the genes for autism/Asperger's, and creativity are essentially the same. We don't know which genes they are yet or how many there are, but we are talking about multiple genes of small effect. Every case is unique because people have varying numbers of the genes involved. These produce people who are highly focused, don't fit into the school system, and who often have poor social relationships and eye contact. They can be quite paranoid and oppositional, and usually highly moral and ethical. They can persist with a topic for 20–30 years without being distracted by what other people think. And they can produce in one lifetime the work of three or four other people." In 2004's ''Autism and Creativity: Is There a Link Between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?'', Fitzgerald says that Lewis Carroll, Éamon de Valera, Sir Keith Joseph, Ramanujan, Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.B. Yeats may have been autistic. In 2005's ''The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger's Syndrome and the Arts'', he identifies the following historical figures as possibly having been autistic: *Writers – Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, Bruce Chatwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Jonathan Swift and William Butler Yeats. *Philosophers – A.J. Ayer, Baruch de Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Simone Weil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein〔Fitzgerald, M. ("Did Ludwig Wittgenstein have Asperger's syndrome?" ), ''European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry'', volume 9, number 1, pp. 61–65. 〕 *Musicians – Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Glenn Gould, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Erik Satie. *Artists – Vincent van Gogh, L.S. Lowry, Jack B. Yeats and Andy Warhol. In 2006's ''Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger's Syndrome'', he discusses Daisy Bates, Samuel Beckett, Robert Boyle, Éamon de Valera, Robert Emmet, William Rowan Hamilton, James Joyce, Padraig Pearse and W.B. Yeats. Speculation about diagnoses in historical individuals is, by necessity, based on behaviour as reported by others and anecdotal evidence rather than any clinical observation of the individual. Retrospective diagnoses are often controversial (Oliver Sacks wrote that many of these claims seem "very thin at best", and Fred Volkmar of the Yale Child Study Center has remarked that "there is unfortunately a sort of cottage industry of finding that everyone has Asperger's".) Fitzgerald's work was described in a ''British Journal of Psychiatry'' book review of ''Autism and Creativity'' as "fudged pseudoscience" and in Mark Osteen's ''Autism and Representation'' as "frankly absurd". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Fitzgerald (psychiatrist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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