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A Comparative Study of Infantile Autism and Specific Developmental Receptive Language Disorder

II. Parental Characteristics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Antony Cox ,
Michael Rutter ,
Steven Newman  and
Lawrence Bartak
Antony Cox
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF
Michael Rutter
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF
Steven Newman
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF
Lawrence Bartak
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF
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In his original description of children with early infantile autism, Kanner (1943) commented that the parents were usually highly intelligent and that many were rather obsessive individuals who lacked real warmth. Subsequently he elaborated on these parental features (Kanner, 1949), and together with Eisenberg went on to suggest that autism was the result of an interaction between an innate ‘organic’ defect and a particular family environment (Eisenberg and Kanner, 1956; Eisenberg, 1957).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 2 , February 1975 , pp. 146 - 159
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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