Lutz Amy S F
History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
Perspect Behav Sci. 2025 Mar 3;48(3):547-553. doi: 10.1007/s40614-025-00439-3. eCollection 2025 Sep.
Recent attacks on applied behavior analysis (ABA) by neurodiversity advocates share a common theme with opposition to other supports, such as subminimum wage vocational programs and congregate residential settings: the intact mind assumption, which maintains that even profoundly autistic people have typical intelligence, even if they present as severely cognitively impaired. This article examines the history of the intact mind assumption, which was largely shaped by psychoanalytic theory in the mid-20 century, as well as its impact on contemporary disability policy and practice.
近期神经多样性倡导者对应用行为分析（ABA）的攻击，与对其他支持措施的反对存在一个共同主题，比如对低于最低工资标准的职业项目和集体居住环境的反对：即完整心智假设，该假设认为，即使是重度自闭症患者也拥有正常智力，即便他们表现出严重的认知障碍。本文考察了完整心智假设的历史，它在很大程度上是由20世纪中叶的精神分析理论塑造的，同时也探讨了其对当代残疾政策和实践的影响。
