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Early Infantile Autism and the Refrigerator Mother Theory (1943-1970)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Aug 19, 2014
In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the US gave the first account of Early Infantile Autism that encouraged psychiatrists to investigate what…
ContextKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism spectrum disordersAutism in children
"Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" (1943), by Leo Kanner
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: May 23, 2014
Leo Kanner published Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact in 1943 in the journal Nervous Child. This article described the cases of eleven…
LiteratureKanner, Leo, 1894-1981AutismAutism in childrenAutistic Disorder