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The Importance of Childhood Experience in relation to Problems of Marriage and Family-Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Eva A. Frommer  and
Gillian O'Shea
Eva A. Frommer
Affiliation:
St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.1
Gillian O'Shea
Affiliation:
St. Thomas' Hospital, London, S.E.1
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Previous reports (1 and 2) have shown that very simple questions to a mother about her own childhood, particularly whether she was ever separated from one or both parents, can identify a group of women who are likely to experience difficulty in managing their baby.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 573 , August 1973 , pp. 157 - 160
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973

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Footnotes

A synopsis of this paper was published in the March 1973 Journal.

References

1Frommer, E. A., and Pratt, G. (1972). ‘Childhood deprivation and mothering problems in a group of mothers with first babies.’ Psychosomatic Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 3rd int. Cong., London 1971, pp. 308–10. Basle: KargerGoogle Scholar
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4Harlow, H. F., and Harlow, M. K. (1969). ‘Effects of various mother-infant relationships on rhesus monkey behaviour’, in Determinants of Infant Behaviour IV (ed. B. M. Foss). London: Methuen.Google Scholar
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