Premature mourning and failure to mourn: their relationship to conflict between mothers and intellectually normal children.
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.
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