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J Autism Dev Disord. 2021 Apr;51(4):1157-1172. doi: 10.1007/s10803-020-04602-4.
This paper examines the genesis of Leo Kanner's 1943 seminal paper on autism. It shows that describing children as autistic or lacking affective contact with people was not new by this time. But Kanner's proposal that infantile autism constituted a hitherto unidentified condition that was inborn and different from childhood schizophrenia was new. It also shows that Georg Frankl's influence on Kanner was important, but Kanner did not misappropriate his ideas or his research. Kanner developed his views on the basis of his observations of several children, his knowledge of the literature on childhood conditions, and his interactions with many scholars.
本文探讨了 Leo Kanner 于 1943 年发表的关于自闭症的开创性论文的起源。研究表明，当时将儿童描述为自闭症或与他人缺乏情感联系并不是什么新鲜事。但是，Kanner 提出婴儿自闭症是一种以前未被识别的先天疾病，与儿童精神分裂症不同，这是新的观点。研究还表明，Georg Frankl 对 Kanner 的影响很重要，但 Kanner 并没有盗用他的想法或研究。Kanner 根据他对几个孩子的观察、对儿童疾病文献的了解以及与许多学者的互动，发展了自己的观点。
