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If you sought help for an autistic child during the 1960s, you would soon discover that the professional mental health arena was programmed to respond in ways now considered obsolete and reviewed in Chapter 1. Psychoanalytic theory was the orienting perspective in this country. Accordingly, autism was widely regarded as a form of social withdrawal from pathological parenting. As a result of such psychogenic formulation, autistic children were often treated with inappropriate psychotherapy, excluded from special education in public schools, and committed for institutional placement to protect them from the presumed cause of their disorder—their own parents.
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Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B., Shigley, R.H., Bashford, A. (1984). Helping Autistic Children through Their Parents. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) The Effects of Autism on the Family. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2293-9_4
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