单词 | good-enough mother |
释义 | > as lemmasgood-enough mother good-enough mother n. originally Psychoanalysis a mother who seeks to meet her child's emotional and physical needs, but reduces her adaptation to those needs over time so as to allow for the child's development of mature selfhood. ΚΠ 1953 D. W. Winnicott in Internat. Jrnl. Psychoanal. 34 94/2 The good enough mother..starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant's needs. 1979 Internat. Jrnl. Psychoanal. 60 124 Gradually, the ‘good-enough mother’ lessens her total adaptation to the child's needs. 2011 M. Golan in D. Bagchi Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity i. v. 28/2 The trick of the good-enough mother is to give the child a sense of loosening rather than the shock of being ‘dropped’. < as lemmas |
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