Maternal deprivation

• The emotional & intellectual consequences of separation between a child and their mother.
• Privation is different to deprivation. Privation is the absence of an attachment. Meaning a child never had an attachment in the first place.
• Intellectual: Abnormally low IQ.

  Emotional: Affectionless psychopath (the inability to experience guilt or strong emotions towards others.)
• Bowlby's research: 44 thieves interviewed for affectionless psychopathy, families also interviewed to establish whether thieves had prolonged separations from their mothers. These 44 were compared to a control group of 44 non-criminals but emotionally disturbed.

  ->14/44 thieves identified as affectionless psychopaths with 12 of them having experiences early prolonged separation from mothers.
• Limitation) The 44 thieves and their families were all interviewed by Bowlby. He may have been biased because he already knew which children would show signs of A.P.

  Limitation)Bowlby's idea of a critical period was flawed because he said that w/o attachment in the first two years of life a child is irreversibly damaged. However, in cases of good aftercare most damage can be reversed.