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Download full textStades-Veth, Joanna – 1988
A case study is reported in which early "autistiform behavior" in a 4-week-old baby was reversed through intensive mothering. The baby, who had been developing normally, was bottlefed by "strangers" for 2 days and then began to avert her eyes from all people, an autistiform behavior which persisted and grew worse as the mother tried to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Autism, Etiology, Infant Behavior
