PSY 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonverbal Communication, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Refrigerator Mother Theory
26 Feb 2017
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Reading: original sin of autism it"s an attachment problem; stems from refrigerator mothers But it was a theory back then in the reading. Rimland helped get us out of the false theory(bel) by having research stats and saying it was biological and can"t be a simple matter of attachment. (footnote: Rimland is a really compelling writer, so his claims that taking vitamins will help with autisim isn"t true. While he dedunked the refrigerator mother theory, he also opened up a lot of other weird theories; vaccines, vitamins. Dsm iii (1980) infantile austism first dsm to list autism. Onset before 30 months of age (you can"t catch autism) Pervasive lack of responsiveness to other people (autisim) If speech is present, peculiar speech patterns such as immediate and delayed echolalia, metaphorical language, pronominal reversal (confusing you and i) Bizarre responses to various aspects of the environment, e. g. resistance to chance, peculiar interest in attachment to animate or inanimate objects.
