Part I‎:‎ Introduction‎;‎ An introduction to the debate‎;‎ Early understanding of the mind‎:‎ the normal case‎;‎ Social development in autism‎:‎ historical and clinical perspectives‎;‎ Part II‎:‎ The theory‎-of‎-mind hypothesis of autism‎:‎ the cognitive approach‎;‎ From attention‎-goal psychology to belief‎-desire psychology‎:‎ the development of a theory of mind‎,‎ and its dysfunction‎;‎ What autism teaches us about metarepresentation‎;‎ The theory‎-of‎-mind deficit in autism‎:‎ rethinking the metarepresentation theory‎;‎ What language reveals about the understanding of minds in children with autism‎;‎ The theory‎-of‎-mind deficit in autism‎:‎ evidence from deception‎;‎ Part III‎:‎ The theory‎-of‎-mind hypothesis of autism‎:‎ critical perspectives‎;‎ The theory‎-of‎-mind and joint‎-attention deficits in autism‎;‎ Understanding persons‎:‎ the role of affect‎;‎ Pretending and planning‎;‎ Narrative language in autism and the theory‎-of‎-mind hypothesis‎:‎ a wider perspective‎;‎ Theories of mind and the problem of autism‎;‎ The complexity of social behaviour in autism‎;‎ The de‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎