Emotional Deprivation in Infancy :: Study by Rene A. Spitz 1952

Psychogenic Disease in Infancy
Illustrates a series of psychogenic diseases and attempts to relate them to the infants' relationships with their mothers.

Vgl.: Vom Säugling zum Kleinkind. Naturgeschichte der Mutter-Kind-Beziehungen im ersten Lebensjahr, Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 360891823X (englische Erstausgabe: The First Year of Life, 1965).

Die Orignalstudie wurde als „Hospitalism: An Inquiry into the Genesis of Psychiatric Conditions in Early Childhood, in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Bd. 1 (1945), und „Hospitalism: A Follow-Up Report, in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Bd. 2 (1946) publiziert.

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[SoZen08]

@mommytoalot

No, these were babies in orphanages after WW2. Dr. Spitz was interested what this deprivation did to them, so he observerd them extensively. It was not an experiment and babies were not deprived of love intentionally. This work was the beginning of our current realization that providing a clean environment and food is not enough for young babies to thrive.

[Sistahsouljah2009]

good research in terms of what we learned from it..but I can't help but wonder how they could be capable to do this research...observing children daily on how they behave without mother or substitute...obviously speculating on the predicted outcome....but then again this is how and why we now have the code of ethics..

[karyssaireland9]

The doctors did this to them. You all saying differently don't know what you're talking about. They purposely neglected them for research. Eventually the babies had a flat afect and killed themselves

[saramelie09]

horrible...

[mskittykat1101]

everyone is arguing whether the doctor was right to do the research or not...but he was definitely wrong because he's fucked up a bunch of kids for life about something you coulda asked an old lady in the most remote part of the world. Dumbass.

[tigrisx23]

Im sure they cared for them because theyre clean and aren't starving. That women using that crayon probaly had issues picking them up since they haas behavioral issues. The danaher has been done already and this is them observing them. Doesn't mean they werent cuddling with them after and before tge vids. This just what they do on theyre down time as a result of neglect

[belugavision]

@AnimalAbuseIsUgly And they didnt pick them up or did they try to change the behaviour. He called them ”it” and look at the nurse putting her finger on ”it´s” head through the fence or whatever its called on the bed. People are truly scary creatures. Truly truly

[belugavision]

@AnimalAbuseIsUgly This is the truth about what is the truth no matter what time you live in

[belugavision]

@AnimalAbuseIsUgly Are you joking? Of course you must be..I chose not to articulate...blablabla on purpose since there are times when choice of words should not be thought of at all and that you dont simply give a fuck about those things, as while you d run from a tsunami or starve in africa you wouldnt think about what words you would use to describe your situation and you would not think about what socks to wear or your declaration. They found the kids and should have taken care of them

[AnimalAbuseIsUgly]

@belugavision You've clearly thought deeply about this issue. What a shame, then, that you can't even articulate your thoughts intelligibly. The doctors didn't isolate these children for the study. They found them already behaving like this, and used the information they had about the children (e.g., age upon entry to orphanage, changes in behavior) to show that their abnormal development was due to the deprivation they had already suffered.

[belugavision]

@SoZen08 A quick research reveals he was jew. A doctor that time, had God-like status in society so if it would have been a thing to let some children suffer to get a point through, he could just have written an essay to change things. People believed in doctors. If empathy would have been the driving source, which t obviously could not have been. I think that he processed what had happened to the jews and his own experiences by making this study.I will google him closely one day

[belugavision]

@SoZen08 wtf is it that youre saying to me. They died, stop this bullshit about a control group. Yes I know that doctors was seen as Gods that time and had immense power over people. I understand that the study changed things. I also understand that he called the children ”it” and this proves that he thought, just like you seem to think, that you can un-attach yourself from feelings as long as you ”study” something, its for a cause or whatever bullshit it may be