so in 1943 they knew all this but in the 1970s and 80s when my parent went looking for what was wrong with me they were told to deal me harsh punishments like locking me in my room forbiding anyone to talk to me until i appreciated them as my parents The process of receiving food or sucking is for the infant at first an intensely personal experience, but through it the child establishes his earliest meaningful rapport with another individual. If his first social relationship is satisfying and free from tension, his later social relationships will be easier for him. If his feeding experiences in infancy consist of one battle after another, he is apt to go battling through life, tense, suspicious, and anxious over social relationships. The child who, before being placed for adoption, has lived in an institution or a foster home has been profoundly influenced by his feeding experiences. Babies cared for in institutions are usually fed by a number of different nurses or attendants who are more interested in getting correct amounts of formula into their charges at specified times than they are in the infants themselves. Some institution babies are even left alone in their cribs to suck from a bottle propped on a pillow. These children lose their earliest and most important opportunity to establish an object relationship through which they can progress from the stage of primitive narcissism to that of socialized human beings. . . . “The Psychology of the Adopted Child,” Mental Hygiene 27 (April 1943):
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