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Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis
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Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis According to Bowlby's hypothesis, breaking the maternal bond with a child during the early years of its life is likely to have serious effects on its intellectual, social and emotional development. Bowlby also claimed that many of these negative effects were permanent and irreversible. To support his hypothesis, Bowlby carried out a study with juvenile thieves. He interviewed the children and their families, and gradually built up a record of their early life experiences. He found that some children had experienced "early and prolonged separation form their mothers", and also found that some of the children were emotionally and / or socially maladjusted. He also diagnosed the condition affectionless psychopathy in some of the children, which involves a lack of guilt and remorse. 32% of the thieves could be described as affectionless psychopaths. None of the control group were diagnosed with this condition. As well as this, 86%...
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