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.

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...

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