Refrigerator mother theory

The term refrigerator mother (English refrigerator mother ) is used in the binding theory and referred mothers who brought their children allegedly console too little, hold her or cuddle with them.

Leo Kanner, who described in 1943 childhood autism, thought it possible that autism is due to a lack of maternal warmth. This theory was Fort Led mainly by the book The Birth of the Self ( 1967), the psychologist Bruno Bettelheim.

Based on this theory, autism is caused by psychological factors, parents of autistic children suffered in the past from unwarranted accusations. In some cases parents are made from their environment for the autistic behavior of their children responsible even today.

It is now clear that autism has neurological causes and possibly genetically determined (see autism).