This onset in the first year seemed due to or to coincide with the lackof the normal "confident expectation" of rescue from, or gratification of, the affect hunger by the mother (2) (19).2 In the second crucial period of onset later in infancy (2nd to 5th year), the hitherto narcissistic appersonation of the mother did not suffice any more to counteract the overwhelming anxiety-predisposition. In view of the increased challenge by and requirements of outside reality and the psychosexual conflict in these years, emotional separation from symbiosis with mother acted as immediate trigger for psychotic withdrawal from reality.
This paper reports on the findings of a three‐year study to evaluate the results of special treatment services to an experimental group of disturbed children in foster care as compared to a control group of children who received traditional services of a public welfare agency.
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