Some Pathological Processes Set in Train by Early Mother-Child Separation
- 1 April 1953
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 99 (415) , 265-272
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.99.415.265
Abstract
It is charactersitic of mental ill-health that the individual's capacity to make continuous co-operative relations with others is impaired. In the psychoses and psychopathic conditions this is unmistakable; in the neuroses it is sometimes less so, and there are even neurotic patients who seem to be especially kind and co-operative. But we know that they only achieve this behaviour at great cost of effort, anxiety and guilt and that, if they break down, they can be very hostile and withdrawn.Keywords
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- PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS OF A CHILD AFTER PROLONGED SEPARATION IN EARLY CHILDHOODPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 1952