In 1949, Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner proposed that autism was caused by mothers who “lack of maternal warmth,” creating a theory that was popular for more than a decade and led to the creation of the term “refrigerator mother.”

In 1949, Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner proposed that autism was caused by mothers who “lack of maternal warmth,” creating a theory that was popular for more than a decade and led to the creation of the term “refrigerator mother.”
