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Forty-Four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-Life
What it shows
- 1951
John Bowlby introduced Maternal deprivation
Bowlby's 1951 report for the World Health Organization defined maternal deprivation and drew together the evidence for its harm, including earlier work by Spitz, Goldfarb and others and his own 1944 study of juvenile thieves, which linked early separation from the mother to an 'affectionless' character.