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CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW - Rutter, M. ( 1972). Maternal Deprivation Reassessed. Harmondsworth : Penguin
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CRITICAL BOOK REVIEW - Rutter, M. ( 1972). Maternal Deprivation Reassessed. Harmondsworth : Penguin No area in psychology has given rise to such widely differing assertions as the topic of 'maternal deprivation'. While it has been recognize that the experiences subsumed under 'maternal deprivation' are complex, there has been a tendency to regard both experiences and outcomes as a syndrome which can be discussed as a whole. However little progress is likely to occur until the basic variables indiscriminately combined under this term are differentiated and separate effects of each determined. The implication is that different psychological mechanism may account for different outcome. In 'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed', Rutter explore this possibility in the light of available evidence from research by comparing the present state knowledge with the extant at the time of Bowlby's review of the field in 1951. The outcomes are considered only in terms of childhood experiences and no reference...
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