Abstract
The present article aimed to investigate insight processes in people with Asperger disorder. Insight is understood as the knowledge of one’s own diagnosis and the senses built from it. The insight development is understood here not as a function of personal psychological life, but as an intersubjective phenomenon, forged in social relations. The theoretical framework that subsidizes this research is the genetic perspective of development advanced by cultural-historical psychology. For this purpose, two tasks of narrative production were proposed to three dyads of parents and teenagers with AD, which investigated aspects related to Asperger experiences. The results suggest that the central characteristic of insight processes in AD can be described as a disruption in the transition of a thinking monologic mode to a thinking dialogic mode. It is believed that the results here found contribute to the comprehension of singularity and occurrence of subjective experience and existence.
Keywords:
Insight, Asperger Disorder; Cultural-historical Psychology; Dialogism