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A Critique of Some Recent Assertions

H. DAVID KIRK, PhD; KURT JONASSOHN, MA; ANN D. FISH, MSW

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;14(3):291-298.

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THE LITERATURE that links a person's experiences in his family of orientation with his mental and emotional wellbeing antedates Freud and is by now so voluminous and so thoroughly accepted as to require little documentation. Nevertheless, the investigations by Goldfarb,¹ Spitz and Wolf,² Erickson,³ and Bowlby,⁴ to mention but a few, have more recently drawn attention to interpersonal factors apparently crucial in personality development, factors such as the nature and continuity of mothering, and the place of the family in the wider social structure. While other students such as Ainsworth⁵ and Casler⁶ have drawn attention to problems of the interpretation of the work of some of these investigators, the critical relationship between significant persons as socializers, and the infant and child to be socialized, remains commonly acknowledged. It is therefore not surprising that the adoptive parent-child relationship . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WATERLOO, ONTARIO; MONTREAL

Associate Professor of Sociology, Sir George Williams University, Montreal (K. Jonassohn); Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario (H.D. Kirk); and Social Caseworker at the Childrens' Service Center, Montreal (A. D. Fish).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 30, 1965.

Of interest here is a book on a related subject referring to Schechter's claim, A. W. Simon's Stepchild in the Family.

Read before the annual meeting of the Upstate New York Sociological Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 14-15, 1965.

Reprint requests to Sir George Williams University, Drummond St, Montreal 25 (K. Jonassohn).

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