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Jessica Park, The House in Monterey (detail), 2003, collection of Jon Sylbert and Lisa Smyle

The basic building blocks of history are what historians call primary sources. This archive includes diverse sources, each one briefly annotated, that illuminate autism’s past and present. Sources are listed alphabetically by author name below. They are also linked to the pages indicated on the right.

Sources	Pages
Hans Asperger, “‘Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood,” 1944	Autism Gender Gap Hans Asperger
Autism in the DSM, 1952-2013	Autism in the DSM
Lauretta Bender to Ellen Donnelly, March 6, 1955	Lauretta Bender
Lauretta Bender, “The Autistic Child,” 1960	Lauretta Bender
Lauuretta Bender, Panel Discussion on Evidence for Non-Psychogenic Origins of Psychoses, 1953	Lauretta Bender Psychogenesis
Bruno Bettelheim, “Joey, a ‘Mechanical Boy’,” 1959	Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim, “Schizophrenia as a Reaction to Extreme Situations,” 1956	Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim, The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self, 1967	Bruno Bettelheim Psychogenesis
Eugen Bleuler, Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, 1911	Autism, the Term
William Bronston, “The Shape of a Marathon,” 1979	Normalization Wolf Wolfensberger
Clinical Studies from the Children’s Unit, Creedmoor State Hospital, mid-1960s	Lauretta Bender
Floyd M. Crandall, “Hospitalism,” 1897	Hospitalism
Mildred Creak, “Psychoses in Children,” 1938	Autism, the Term
Sante de Sanctis, “On Some Varieties of Dementia Praecox,” 1906	Autism, the Term
J. Louise Despert, “Schizophrenia in Children,” 1938	Autism, the Term
J. Louise Despert, “Thinking and Motility Disorder in a Schizophrenic Child,” 1941	Autism, the Term
Frances Eberhardy, “The View from ‘the Couch’,” 1967	Bruno Bettelheim
C. B. Ferster and Marian K. DeMyer, “A Method for the Experimental Analysis of the Behavior of Autistic Children,” 1962	Applied Behavior Analysis
Sigmund Freud, “On Narcissism,” 1914	Psychogenesis
Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano, Emergence Labeled Autistic, 1986	Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, “My Experiences as an Autistic Child and Review of Selected Literature,” 1984	Temple Grandin
Joan E. Kain to Lauretta Bender, April 10, 1950	Hans Asperger
Leo Kanner, “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,” 1943	Autism, the Term “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,” 1943 Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner, “Follow-up Study of Eleven Autistic Children Originally Reported in 1943,” 1971	Leo Kanner
Leo Kanner, “Problems of Nosology and Psychodynamics of Early Infantile Autism,” 1949	Leo Kanner
League for Emotionally Disturbed Children, “An Experimental Program for the Education of Seriously Disturbed Students,” 1955	Childhood Psychosis or Schizophrenia
League for Emotionally Disturbed Children, “The Mentally Ill Child in the Public School,” May 1958	Childhood Psychosis or Schizophrenia
League for Emotionally Disturbed Children, “This Child Is In Trouble,” late 1950s	Childhood Psychosis or Schizophrenia
David M. Levy, “Primary Affect Hunger,” 1937	Hospitalism
Ivar Lovaas, “Contrasting Illness and Behavioral Models for the Treatment of Autistic Children: A Historical Perspective,” 1979	Ivar Lovaas
Hilde L. Mosse, “The Misuse of the Diagnosis of Childhood Schizophrenia,” 1958	Childhood Psychosis or Schizophrenia
Bengt Nirje, “The Normalization Principle and Its Human Management Implications,” 1969	Normalization Wolf Wolfensberger
Clara Claiborne Park, The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child, 1967	Clara Claiborne Park The Siege: The First Eight Year of an Autistic Child, 1967
Robert Perske, “The Dignity of Risk and the Mentally Retarded,” 1972	Mental Retardation Normalization Wolf Wolfensberger
Howard W. Potter, “Schizophrenia in Children,” 1933	Autism, the Term
Margaret A. Ribble, The Rights of Infants: Early Psychological Needs and Their Satisfaction, 1943	Psychogenesis
Bernard Rimland, “Freud Is Dead: New Directions in the Treatment of Mentally Ill,” 1970	Psychogenesis
Bernard Rimland, Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior, 1964	Psychogenesis
Dale Evans Rogers, Angel Unaware, 1953	Mental Retardation
“Screams, Slaps and Love: A Surprising, Shocking Treatment Helps Far-Gone Mental Cripples,” 1965	Ivar Lovaas
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children,” 1962	Rosemary Kennedy Eunice Kennedy Shriver Mental Retardation
Wolf Wolfensberger, The Principle of Normalization in Human Services, 1972	Normalization Wolf Wolfensberger

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