Psychodynamic Approach - Attachment And Maternal Deprivation (Bowlby)

Question 1

Maternal deprivation

Answer 1

If a secure attachment isn’t made with its primal caregiver from birth to 5 years old (leading to “normal” development) then a child will experience this

Question 2

MD and criminality

Answer 2

Bowlby found a link between early life [^^] and deviant or anti-social behaviour
Affectionless psychopathy
Criminal behaviour

Question 3

Bowlby’s study

Answer 3

44 thieves study

Question 4

44 thieves study - who was studied?

Answer 4

Bowlby studied 44 adolescent juvenile delinquents (thieves) in a child guidance clinic

Question 5

44 thieves study - what was found?

Answer 5

Bowlby found that more than half the thieves had been separated from their mothers for more than 6 months during the first 5 years of life
14 of them showed ‘affectionless psychopathy’

Question 6

Failure to develop a secure attachment can result in:

Answer 6

Affectionless psychopathy - unable to care about/feel for others

Question 7

Bowlby’s theory - Criminality link?

Answer 7

Similar to Freud:
Early childhood experiences can be associated with criminality (failure to progress from the pleasure principle to the reality principle)