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Infantile Autism

Infantile Autism Australian Journal of Social Work VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3 Infantile Autism 1 J. GORDON-RUSSELV avoidance of the word psychotic in children I have been interested in this problem for has been a practice, as this tends to be equated the past fifteen years following on my ex­ with madness by parents and lay people. periences in two residential children's units in A good deal of work has been done on the the United Kingdom. parents and siblings of these children. It was .Early Infantile Autism was first clearly des­ Kanner who emphasized the fact that the cnbed by Dr Leo Kanner in 1943. At this time majority of the parents were highly intellectual he was director of the Child Psychiatry Clinic -bookish, formal, humourless, obsessional, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His paper was en­ rational and subjective. He found that these titled 'Autistic Disturbances of Affective Con­ parents were not comfortable in the company tact'. The original paper was based on the case of others but preferred reading, writing, paint­ ?istories of eleven children. One year later he ing or just thinking. Kanner commented that mtroduced the term 'early infantile autism'. they tended to disdain anything that smacks Kanner so http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

Infantile Autism

Gordon-Russell, J.
Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 18 (3): 5 – Nov 1, 1965
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Infantile Autism

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Australian Journal of Social Work VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3 Infantile Autism 1 J. GORDON-RUSSELV avoidance of the word psychotic in children I have been interested in this problem for has been a practice, as this tends to be equated the past fifteen years following on my ex­ with madness by parents and lay people. periences in two residential children's units in A good deal of work has been done on the the United Kingdom. parents and siblings of these children. It was .Early Infantile...
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Australian Journal of Social Work VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3 Infantile Autism 1 J. GORDON-RUSSELV avoidance of the word psychotic in children I have been interested in this problem for has been a practice, as this tends to be equated the past fifteen years following on my ex­ with madness by parents and lay people. periences in two residential children's units in A good deal of work has been done on the the United Kingdom. parents and siblings of these children. It was .Early Infantile Autism was first clearly des­ Kanner who emphasized the fact that the cnbed by Dr Leo Kanner in 1943. At this time majority of the parents were highly intellectual he was director of the Child Psychiatry Clinic -bookish, formal, humourless, obsessional, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His paper was en­ rational and subjective. He found that these titled 'Autistic Disturbances of Affective Con­ parents were not comfortable in the company tact'. The original paper was based on the case of others but preferred reading, writing, paint­ ?istories of eleven children. One year later he ing or just thinking. Kanner commented that mtroduced the term 'early infantile autism'. they tended to disdain anything that smacks Kanner so

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Australian Journal of Social Work – Taylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 1965

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