Abstract
An interventive approach is presented utilizing aspects of learning theory and psychoanalytic theory regarding object relations, which achieved positive results with three women with subsequent direct observable effects on the symptomatology of their children. It appeared that the method was able to interrupt a vicious cycle of maternal deprivation effecting change in the affective lives of each mother and in the ability to learn in each child.
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