Problem: Watch Refrigerator Mothers (video)
And answer the following questions.
Q1. Describe the "Refrigerator Mother" theory. What is meant by the term, refrigerator mother?
Q2. According to Bettleheim, in what way is autism similar to his experience in a Nazi concentration camp?
Q3. Although discredited today, was there any permanent harm done by adhering to the Refrigerator Mother theory of autism?