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Diagnosing Others, Hiding Self: Shame and Non-Disclosure Among Autistic Psychiatrists - An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis

2026-07-15

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Autistic psychiatrists occupy a paradoxical position: trained to recognise and assess autism in others, yet navigating a professional culture in which their own autistic identity remains largely concealed. Despite growing visibility of autistic clinicians, the barriers autistic psychiatrists face to formal diagnosis and professional disclosure remain unexplored. This study used interpretive phenomenological analys...

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Literature Corpus work: 385aea0d-f025-5119-a931-75e5c3bd9568
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.13.26357917

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