Bruno Bettelheim On Autism

Bruno Bettelheim also studied the outcome of three therapy sessions with children who he called autistic. He determined that the problem in the children was due to coldness of their mothers. Kanner and Bettelheim both worked towards making a hypothesis that demonstrated that autistic children had cold mothers. Bernard Rimland who was a psychologist, and also the parent of a child with autism, disagreed with Bettelheim. Bernard didn't think that the cause of his son’s autism was because either him or his wife’s parenting skills. Many parents continued to confuse autism with mental retardation or psychosis. It was in 1980 when Asperger’s work was translated to English, published and came into knowledge, therefore, it was in the 1980’s that autism research gained momentum. After this it was believed that parenting had no role in the trigger of autism and instead that there were …show more content…
Lorna Wing, who put Asperger’s syndrome on the map in 1981, has contributed over the years to the information of autistic conditions, to the reshaping of concepts about autism; to the formation of parent organizations; to the literature on autism for parents; and to the diagnosis, treatment and care of autistic people and their