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In this account of their research, the authors describe the anxiety, loneliness and despair of young children in hospital, foster homes and institutions in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a history of a couple in the field of child health, who pioneered research into the effects of separation from the mother when a child went into hospital.

Separation and the Very Young

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    A Paperback / softback by James Robertson, Joyce Robertson

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      Publisher: Free Association Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1989
      ISBN13: 9781853430961, 978-1853430961
      ISBN10: 185343096X

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      Book Synopsis
      In this account of their research, the authors describe the anxiety, loneliness and despair of young children in hospital, foster homes and institutions in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a history of a couple in the field of child health, who pioneered research into the effects of separation from the mother when a child went into hospital.

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