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]

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