Autism Books - 1974
- Bruno Bettelheim.
- A Home for the Heart
(New York: Knopf, 1974).
Also, Knopf, 1994, hardcover, 461 pages, and University of Chicago Press, 1984. About Bettelheim's Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago for schizophrenic and autistic children.
[autism,psychoanalysis]
- Carl H. Delacato.
- The Ultimate Stranger; the autistic child
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974).
Delacato's thesis is that autism is neuro-genic and not psycho-genic in origin. Deals almost entirely with sensory problems affecting autistic children. Topics include sensory hypersensitivity, hyposensitivity, and "white noise", by which it refers to a kind of internal interference.
ISBN: 0385010745 (paperback, 225 pages); ISBN: 0878794468 (Arena; Academic Therapy Publications, paperback, 226 pages).
[autism,intro]
- National Society for Autistic Children.
- An autistic child in the family: report
(London: National Society for Autistic Children, 1974).
15 pages.
ISBN: 0902502093 .
[autism]
- National Society for Autistic Children.
- Three lost years: report
(London: National Society for Autistic Children, 1974).
22 pages.
ISBN: 0902502085 .
[autism]
www.autism-resources.com