PEP | Article - Clinical: Bernard S. Robbins. 'A Note on the Significance of Infantile Nutritional Disturbances in the Development of Alcoholism.' The Psychoanalytic Review, January, 1935, Vol. XXII, No. 1, pp. 53–59.

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Abstract

A case is reported in which an infant weaned shortly after birth developed severe nutritional disorders lasting through childhood. A neurosis appearing in adolescence resulted in a resort to alcohol which was a symbolic return to the breast. As the personality matured under analysis, the need for alcoholic sedation receded, and the compulsion to drink was replaced by a taste for alcohol in moderation and an enjoyment of food which had previously been lacking. The author suggests that in

PEP | Article - Clinical: Bernard S. Robbins. 'A Note on the Significance of Infantile Nutritional Disturbances in the Development of Alcoholism.' The Psychoanalytic Review, January, 1935, Vol. XXII, No. 1, pp. 53–59. - Dooley, Lucile