title: Premature mourning and failure to mourn: their relationship to conflict between mothers and intellectually normal children.
abstract: The significance of mourning as related to the condition of infants at birth is examined with respect to the incomplete working through of mourning reactions when a critically ill neonate survives, and the failure to mourn when defects are discovered in a newborn. Similar parent-child difficulties resulting from superficially opposite parental reactions to the psychological traumas are described, and suggestions for further study are offered.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D007360:Intelligence; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment