emotional deprivation

Is the fact that so few old people seem to express such strong positive feelings in itself significant of social, cultural and emotional deprivation?

Children in foster care experience high rates of child abuse, emotional deprivation, and physical neglect.

"Sometimes in an environment of physical or emotional deprivation a child will simply stop growing, although certain internal maturation does continue.

But like his character's childhood, his was a combination of material wealth and emotional deprivation.

In all of these cases, there was evidence of severe emotional deprivation in early life.

Most professionals view failure to thrive as resulting from maternal emotional deprivation (Green et al.

"Compared to the cultural and emotional deprivation of most of our children, its consequences are inconsiderable."

An example is the one by David Levy that associated an adopted child's lack of social emotion to her early emotional deprivation.

Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.

The long-term effects included "emotional deprivation, suppression of assertiveness.

If you're dealing with other problems too, such as family conflict, bullying, bereavement, poverty, emotional deprivation or abuse, it can feel like a vulnerable time.

He has seen malnourished children and children depressed by lives of squalor and emotional deprivation.

"Martha and Ethel" is set largely in the 1950's in a world of material wealth and emotional deprivation.

Perhaps it is a basic rule of life that the deeper the emotional deprivations of the heart, the simpler our joys appear.

His greatest scientific contributions came from his studies of the effects of maternal and emotional deprivation on infants.

For Pettie is every parent's worst nightmare, a loose cannon whose moral sense has withered and died through a lifetime of emotional deprivation.

The Freudians claim it's due to emotional deprivation during the first two years of life; the biochemical engineers blame faulty wiring.

Melitta Schmideberg noted in 1948 how emotional deprivation could lead parents to treat their children (unconsciously) as substitute parent figures.

Examples include schemata of abandonment/instability, mistrust/abuse, emotional deprivation, and defectiveness/shame.

In his fiction, Mr. Bazin often wrote about emotional deprivation and mental and physical illness.

He wondered if his exaggerated reactions - spells of extreme rage, spiralling fear - were a response to the past year of emotional deprivation.

As Mary relates, in more cultivated tones, her own uneventful history, it becomes clear that she has also lived a life of emotional deprivation and loneliness.

Spitz coined the term "anaclitic depression" to refer to partial emotional deprivation (the loss of a loved object).

A series of articles on "emotional deprivation and growth retardation" prompts one physician to speculate about a possible "Tin Drum syndrome."

At base, Ms. Damon said, compulsive behavior always seems to go back to some emotional deprivation in childhood and is always linked to low self-esteem.