Dr. Leon Brenner is a research fellow at the University of Potsdam and lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB). His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

This episode is also available to view at YouTube: https://youtu.be/shWuEQwuao4

Dr. Brenner's personal blog and website:

https://leonbrenner.com

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/leonbrennercom/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/leonbrennercom

Lacanian Affinities Berlin website:

https://lacanberlin.com

The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language:

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030507145

Recommended works by autistic writers and artists:

Baggs, A. [silentmiaow] (2007, January 15). In my language. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/JnylM1hI2jc

Grandin, T. (2006). Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism. New-York: Vintage.

Sinclair, J. (1993). Don’t Mourn for us. Our Voice. Autism Network International. Retrieved from http://www.autreat.com/dont_mourn.html

Tammet, D. (2007). Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Williams, D. (2015). Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism. Portland: Broadway Books.

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The track playing at the end of the episode is titled "Humbly Triumphant" from the album "The larval stage of a bookworm" by Carl Abrahamsson available from Highbrow Lowlife. https://carlabrahamsson.bandcamp.com/album/the-larval-stage-of-a-bookworm

Portrait of Dr. Leon Brenner from a film created by Berlin Psychoanalytic: https://youtu.be/3gRWL9TX9rg