PEP | Article - Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. LXII, 1949: Significance of Maternal Bereavement Before Age of Eight in Psychiatric Patients. Herbert Barry, Jr. Pp. 630–637.

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Abstract

Barry studied the histories of some three hundred psychiatric patients in order to determine which was dynamically more significant, the loss of the mother or the father. He concluded that the loss of the mother before eight years of age is more damaging than the loss of the father.

PEP | Article - Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. LXII, 1949: Significance of Maternal Bereavement Before Age of Eight in Psychiatric Patients. Herbert Barry, Jr. Pp. 630–637. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly