Give Me Back My Asperger’s

Date: 10:00 am | Sunday 20 October 2013

Venue: Chandelier Room, Freemasons Hall

The latest update of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-5) collapses Asperger syndrome and autism, along with other disorders, into one diagnosis – Autism Spectrum Disorder. Gary Greenberg joins Prof Jon Jureidini to discuss whether a mental health diagnosis makes for an identity.