Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization

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Neumeier, S. & Brown, L. X. M. Z. (2019). Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization. In Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement (pp. 195-210). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_14

Publication date: 7 Nov 2019 Added to AutiHub: 5 Jul 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English
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  1. Shain Neumeier *
  2. Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown *

Abstract

Abstract As autistic activists, Shain M. Neumeier and Lydia X. Z. Brown have been working to close the Judge Rotenberg Center in the US, which has engaged in some of the most egregious forms of such abuse, and more generally to end the use of coercive and abusive forms of “treatment” for autistic and other disabled people, for the past ten years. During that time, both of them have worked toward this goal through multiple avenues, including policy and legal advocacy, grassroots organizing, and media outreach. They believe that the neurodiversity movement’s history is rife with instances of individual and systemic abuse, violence, and trauma which they have been focused on naming and ending.

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