
The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn. https://t.co/79ig3R8OTF
The greatest trauma a child can experience. Ronald Fairbairn. https://t.co/79ig3R8OTF
When a parent is significantly absent—physically or emotionally—the child always feels rejected and infers that the parent’s neglect or absence is due to something in the child that is defective or unlovable.
Lyons-Ruth concludes that infants who are not truly seen and known by their mothers are at high risk to grow into adolescents who are unable to know and to see.”