Mental Health Treatment | Autism | 1960s Assessment and Treatment. @MentalHealthTreatment | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Film shows an example of what was once called symbiotic psychosis, and falls under the ASD umbrella today. In this film we see a Freudian approach to the condition, with mention of Mike's "orally destructive impulses" and a treatment goal of "ego differentiation". 1960s were the time of divergence from the psychoanalytic theories that characterized the prior 80 years.