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Autism

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In his original description of the syndrome of infantile autism, Kanner (1943) commented that the parents tended to be highly intelligent obsessive people interested in abstractions and lacking real human warmth. He also observed that: “the children’s aloneness from the beginning of life makes it difficult to attribute the whole picture exclusively to the type of the early parental relations.” In the years that followed, numerous other writers drew attention to supposed abnormalities in this or that aspect of family functioning or early life experiences. A wide variety of theoretical formulations were proposed to suggest how psychogenic factors might have caused autism. At first, there were many suggestions that autism usually arises entirely on a psychogenic basis. However, evidence accumulated on the presence of biological abnormalities of various kinds in many autistic children, and few people today maintain an exclusively psychogenic position.

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Cantwell, D.P., Baker, L., Rutter, M. (1978). Family Factors. In: Rutter, M., Schopler, E. (eds) Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0787-7_18

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