Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, on now till February 19, 21011
This content was published on
1 minute
swissinfo.ch
American artist Gregory L. Blackstock (1946) is autistic and an artistic savant who creates meticulously accurate hand-drawn illustrations from memory. His drawings show various groups of things, for example leaves, trains, beetles, clowns, dogs, ladies’ and men’s shoes, vegetables. The Blackstock exhibition is a premier in Europe.
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.
Read more
More
Advocates want turnaround in autism treatment
This content was published on
Autism organisations in Switzerland say they face a lopsided battle against the tendency to classify the condition as a psychiatric disease; something prevalent in western Switzerland and France. They point the finger at psychoanalytic theories of thinkers like Austrian-born child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim and of Sigmund Freud, who for a long time claimed mothers were…
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.