Michael Fitzgerald (psychiatrist)

Michael Fitzgerald ( born October 7, 1946) is an Irish psychiatrist and university lecturer.

Life

Michael Fitzgerald studied at the Chicago Medical School in the U.S.. In 1970, he worked as a junior doctor at St. Patrick 's Hospital in Dublin. This was followed by appointments at Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospital London and at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. In 1979 he became senior registrar at the Psychiatry Kings 's College Hospital, London. Next he worked as a psychiatrist at the National Children's Hospital Dublin. He was appointed the first Professor of Child Psychiatry in Ireland at Trinity College in Dublin in 1996. He is a scientific advisor to the Irish Society for Autism.

During his career, Fitzgerald has more than 1900 people are diagnosed with autism or Asperger syndrome. As an author or co- author, he has published 16 books. For more notoriety he achieved with his investigations on the relationship between autism and creativity, which he in his books Genesis of Artistic Creativity - published Asperger 's Syndrome and the Arts and Autism and Creativity. Simon Baron -Cohen described the latter as the best book that he had read about autism.

Publications (selection)

  • Did " The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", Paul Erdos, have Asperger syndrome, in: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 1999, Volume 53 (6 ), pp. 465-466
  • Did Isaac Newton have Asperger 's Syndrome, in: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Journal, 1999, Volume 8, pp. 244
  • Autism and Creativity: is there a link in between autism in men and exceptional ability, in 2004?
  • John Harpur and Mary Lawlor: Succeeding in College with Asperger 's Syndrome, 2004
  • The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger 's Syndrome and the Arts, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1843103346
  • Viktoria Lyons: Asperger Syndrome - A Gift or a Curse, 2005?
  • John Harpur and Mary Lawlor: Succeeding with interventions for Asperger syndrome adolescents, 2006
  • With Mark Bellgrove and Michael Gill ( eds.): Handbook of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, 2007
  • With Brendan O'Brien: Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World, Autism Asperger Publishing Company, 2007, ISBN 1931282447
  • With Ioan James: The Mind of the Matematician, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, ISBN 0801885876
  • With Antoinette Walker: Instoppable Brilliance - Irish Geniuses and Asperger 's Syndrome, 2008, ISBN 1905483287
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