Amy S.F. Lutz

Amy S. F. Lutz, PhD, is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written about severe autism for many platforms, including The Atlantic, Slate, Spectrum, and Psychology Today, as well as in books: We Walk: Life with Severe Autism and Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children. She is vice president of the National Council on Severe Autism and lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and five children.