Rene Spitz

Question 1

Attachment/Anaclitic Depression

Answer 1

Rene Spitz: Ego development, expecially with children

• Atachment/Anaclitic Depression

Question 2

What are the 2 significant effects on the children’s psycho-emotional development?

Answer 2

1. Hospitalism-The symptoms could include retarded physical development, and disruption of perceptual-motor skills and language
2. Anaclitic Depression- severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute

Question 3

What are the 3 significant principles in psychological development of children that Spitz identified?

Answer 3

1. The smiling response
2. stranger anxiety
3. Semantic communication