Bibliograph

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 (ITVS)

Type

Label

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 (ITVS)

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Refrigerator mothers

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

67250217

Responsibility statement

directed, co-produced and edited by David E. Simpson ; producer, J.J. Hanley ; produced by Kartemquin Films, in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS)

Runtime

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

Technique

live action

Classification