Documentary Description
The amazing story of Dr Temple Grandin's ability to read the animal mind, which has made her the most famous autistic woman on the planet.
Dr Temple Grandin has a legendary ability to read the animal mind
and understand animal behaviour when no one else can. But this is no
feat of telepathy; her explanation is simple. She's convinced she
experiences the world much as an animal does and that it's all down to
her autistic brain.
Since the 1940s, when Temple was born, our understanding of autism
has come a long way. For years during the fifties and sixties many
psychologists and doctors believed that the condition was an emotional
disorder, the product of a disturbed childhood.
Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim became famous for his theory that
children with autism exhibited the symptoms of the condition because
their mothers had unconsciously rejected them as babies and young
children. Children, he argued, could be cured with psychotherapy.
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