Michael was recently part of the Channel 4 documentary, Hitler's DNA - Blueprint of a Dictator Here is a Link to watch https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hitlers-dna-blueprint-of-a-dictator/on-demand/74914-001
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UPDATE
UPDATE: the website has been updated with new research from 2020 to 2025. All research now links to its source. Some of the new research include creativity and greatness of people such as David Bowie, Errol Flynn, Margaret Tatcher, Banjamin Franklin, Emile Zola and...
Freud on Trial Book
Sigmund Freud was one of the most controversial writers of the 20th Century. He had Asperger’s Syndrome and so without understanding this condition, it is difficult to make sense of Freud and his writings. He was mainly a literary figure whose theories have very...
Autism beyond DSM 5 – World Autism Association Lecture, Houston, Texas, USA
This lecture delivered by Prof. Michael Fitzgerald at the World Autism Association in the USA, focuses on many issues not dealt with in DSM 5. It deals with Autism as an endlessly contradictory condition. World Autism Association, Houston, Texas, November 2018 -...
Challenging DSM 5 Conference – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland – November 2013
This presentation was about diagnostic problems in the area of Autism and was delivered in Trinity College, Dublin by Prof. Michael Fitzgerald in November 2013 Challenging DSM V Conference - Trinity College Dublin - November 2013
Psychosocial factors associated with psychological problems in Irish children and mothers
The results of this study show that for Irish primary school children, the probability of psychiatric illness is positively associated with low IQ and reading difficulties, large family size, being a boy rather than a girl, and having a mother who is dissatisfied with...
The Future of Psychiatry
https://frontline-ireland.com/the-future-of-psychiatry-is-neurodevelopmental/ Click here to view this Article Online
Blaming the Mother
The importance of listening to the mother – Tips on accessing children with behavioural difficulties. For some time, the understanding of child behaviour problems tended to blame mothers. This was a catastrophic error, writes Professor Michael Fitzgerald...
Psychiatric Problems in Irish Children and Adults – From Childhood to Adulthood
A longitudinal follow up study From Child to Adult A Longitudinal Study of Irish Children and their Families Co-Author: Cleary A., Fitzgerald M., & Nixon E. Publisher: University College Dublin Criterion Press Ltd. ISBN: 1 9022 7785 6 Free book to download on...