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  2. Pathological demand avoidance - Wikipedia

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    When Newson was made professor of developmental psychology at the University of Nottingham in 1994, she dedicated her inaugural lecture to talking about pathological demand avoidance syndrome. [26] In 1997, the PDA Society was established in the UK by parents of children with a PDA profile. It became a registered charity in January 2016. [27]

  3. Elizabeth Newson - Wikipedia

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    In 1980 she proposed the term pathological demand avoidance [7] to describe people who do not want to co-operate with instructions even when this would be in their own interest. She had identified a group of children who had this characteristic and they would "avoid everyday demands and expectations to an extreme extent".

  4. Refrigerator mother theory - Wikipedia

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    The refrigerator mother theory, also known as Bettelheim's theory of autism, is a largely abandoned psychological theory that the cause of autism is a lack of parental, and in particular, maternal emotional warmth.

  5. List of diagnoses characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Pathological demand avoidance is a proposed disorder characterised by avoidance of every day demands. It was proposed by British psychologist Elizabeth Newsom in 1983 for children who did not then meet the criteria for autism and which she felt shared certain other characteristics, such as an interest in pretend play.

  6. Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g., self-imposed social isolation) as a maladaptive coping method. [1]

  7. PDA - Wikipedia

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    Pathological demand avoidance, in psychology; Patent ductus arteriosus, a heart defect; Posterior descending artery, an artery; Potato dextrose agar, a microbiological media for culturing yeast and fungus

  8. Multiple complex developmental disorder - Wikipedia

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    Social disinterest, detachment, avoidance, or withdrawal in the face of evident competence (at times) of social engagement, particularly with adults. More often attachments may appear friendly and cooperative but very superficial, based primarily on receiving material needs. Inability to initiate or maintain peer relationships.

  9. Autism - Wikipedia

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    Pathological demand avoidance can occur. People with this set of autistic symptoms are more likely to refuse to do what is asked or expected of them, even to activities they enjoy. Unusual or atypical eating behavior occurs in about three-quarters of children with ASD, to the extent that it was formerly a diagnostic indicator. [146]