Books by Werner Herzog
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
by Werner Herzog
This film depicts an enigmatic real-life character who turned up in a village in Nuremberg in 1828. He has no language and seems completely outside of human culture, and is taken in by the local doctor who tries to socialise him. But the big question is, how could somebody be, as it were, outside of human society and find it so hard to develop language and to make sense of people? Kaspar Hauser might be the first well-documented case of autism in literature, or even in history.
Interviews where books by Werner Herzog were recommended
The best books on Autism and Developmental Psychology, recommended by Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen, the longstanding director of the University of Cambridge’s multidisciplinary Autism Research Centre, offers some recommended reading (plus a film to watch) to help you improve your understanding of the experience of those on the autism spectrum, or of developmental psychology more generally.
