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maternal deprivation

  1. Aspychata

    Refrigerator Mother

    Refrigerator mother was coined in 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. Leo Kanner (American physician, psychiatrist) identified autism in 1943, he noted lack of warmth among the parents of autistic children. Alice Miller maintains that autism is...
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