s patient," they could be using established terminology to say the particular patient is escaping from reality, yet they would not necessarily be talking about someone who suffers from the developmental disorder. (Bettleheim, 1994). It was widely accepted that a child's autistic condition was the result of extremely, cold distant, rejecting and overly intellectual parenting. The child's extreme withdrawal was viewed as a refusal to engage in social or physical contact, rather than inability. (Bettleheim, 1994). After Kanner and Asperger's discovery, parents were observed to treat their autistic children without the warmth and affection, wh!
             ich is normally observed between parent and child. Freudian psychology had a ready-made theory waiting for this syndrome and this observation: that if certain basic psychological bonds between parent and child fail to form that the child will fail to progress. A Freudian theory of autism remained in vogue in the 50s and early 60s. Though the theory fit Freudian psychology hand-in-glov
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