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Refrigerator mothers / directed, co-produced and edited by David E. Simpson ; producer, J.J. Hanley ; produced by Kartemquin Films, in association with the Independent Television Service.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autism--Biography.
- Autism.
- Autism in children.
- Autistic people--Biography.
- Autistic people.
- Autism--Treatment.
- History.
- Autistic people--Family relationships--United States.
- Autistic people--Family relationships.
- United States.
- Autism--Treatment--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (53 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn] : [Distributed by] Fanlight Productions, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the American medical establishment thought it had found the cause of autism: poor mothering. Doctors presumed that the bizarre behaviors of autistic children--rigid rituals, difficulty with speech, extreme self-isolation--stemmed from their mothers' emotional frigidity. We now know that autism is a brain disorder, not the result of poor parenting. But for a whole generation of women branded as cold "refrigerator mothers," the damage had already been done.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, co-producer, Gordon Quinn; music, Hannah Marcus; camera, Tsuyoshi Kimoto, Gordon Quinn.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Previously released by: Kartemquin Educational Films, c2002.
- Resource page includes the option of making a clip.
- Publisher Number:
- fn-refr Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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