| 单词 | maternal deprivation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaternal deprivation maternal deprivation n. Psychology lack of maternal care, or separation in early childhood from one's mother regarded as a cause of psychological problems in later life. ΚΠ 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry 11 459 The child's refusal to eat seems to have a complex significance. In the first place, it is a form of revenge for maternal deprivation. 1951 Bull. World Health Organization 3 361 It is this complex..relationship with the mother in the early years..that child psychiatrists..believe to underlie the development of character and of mental health. A state of affairs in which the child does not have this relationship is termed ‘maternal deprivation’. 1992 R. D. Gross Psychology (ed. 2) v. xxii. 657 By using the general term ‘maternal deprivation’, Bowlby failed to distinguish between the effects of being separated from an attachment figure and the effects of never having formed an attachment. < as lemmas |
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