Joey: 'A Mechanical Boy.'

'''Bettelheim, Bruno. "Joey: 'A Mechanical Boy.'"' Scientific American'' March 1959. Rpt. Man Alone, q.v. below.

A case study of an autistic boy who was convinced that he was a machine. (See L. Yablonsky, Robopaths, this Category.) Joey creates for himself an "artificial, mechanical womb," initially an "electrical papoose."