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  • 21History of attachment theory — Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings. In order… …

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  • 22Swazi — /swah zee/, n., pl. Swazis, (esp. collectively) Swazi for 1. 1. a member of a Nguni people of Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa. 2. the Bantu language of the Swazi. * * * or Swati Bantu speaking people inhabiting the grasslands of… …

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  • 23Wives and Daughters — is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.The …

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  • 24anaclitic — Leaning or depending upon; in psychoanalysis, relating to the dependence of the infant on the mother or mother substitute. See a. depression. [G. ana, toward, + klino, to lean] * * * an·a·clit·ic an ə klit ik adj of, relating to, or characterized …

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  • 25Michael Rutter — For the motorcycle racer, see Michael Rutter (motorcycle racer) Sir Michael L. Rutter (born 1934) is the first consultant of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom. He has been described as the father of child psychology .[1] Currently he is… …

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  • 26surrogatemother — surrogate mother n. 1. A woman who bears a child for another person, often for pay, either through artificial insemination or by carrying until birth another woman s surgically implanted fertilized egg. 2. One that acts as, serves as, or is a… …

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  • 27schizoanalysis —    by Eugene Holland   Schizoanalysis is the revolutionary materialist psychiatry derived primarily from the critique of psychoanalysis. As the concept schizoanalysis indicates, Sigmund Freud s theory of the Oedipus complex is the principle… …

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  • 28schizoanalysis —    by Eugene Holland   Schizoanalysis is the revolutionary materialist psychiatry derived primarily from the critique of psychoanalysis. As the concept schizoanalysis indicates, Sigmund Freud s theory of the Oedipus complex is the principle… …

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  • 29farther — farther, further 1. general. Further is the older form, being recorded in Old English and probably related to our word forth, while farther is a Middle English variant of further; from this stage the two words came to be used as the comparative… …

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  • 30further — farther, further 1. general. Further is the older form, being recorded in Old English and probably related to our word forth, while farther is a Middle English variant of further; from this stage the two words came to be used as the comparative… …

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