Video shows the effects of emotional deprivation on babies :(
Emotionally healthy babies play around with the blocks
Less healthy ones pay a lot of attention to people out of fear & desire for social contact
Extremely deprived ones are frozen & anxious
youtu.be/ChoOExRLT4Q
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Wonder how much of this carries on to adulthood, and how much of it can be "healed" to whatever degree is possible
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afaict the answer is "a lot" in both cases! here's a book lol
it's very textbooky, if you want something in a more pop style i've heard good things about Attached but haven't read it. this book describes the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol which is the thing the course i took recently was about, seems v promising
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