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Research is a painfully slow process, but from time to time there is a breathtaking acceleration. After many years of experimentation we have suddenly found a window through which we can glimpse a new view of autism. This new view is little explored as yet, but it has come to be known by the catch phrase “theory of mind”. Finding the window was not sheer luck however. We were led towards it by a number of converging paths.
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Frith, U. (1989). Autism and “Theory of Mind”. In: Gillberg, C. (eds) Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0882-7_4
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