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Compatibility in Parent-Infant Relationships: Origins and Processes

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Developmental and clinical theorists have long been interested in the compatibility or incompatibility of infant-parent (usually, infant-mother) relationships. Ever since the first part of this century, when Freud turned attention to early experiences (see Freud, 1940, for a summary of this position), psychoanalysts and their successors have emphasized the formative significance of the infant-caretaker relationship (see Maccoby and Masters, 1970, for a review). Initially, researchers were chiefly concerned with identification of normative trends and processes (Bowlby, 1969; Rajecki, Lamb, & Obmascher, 1978), but over time they came to recognize the importance of individual differences, and this led to a focus on the compatibility or incompatibility of specific relationships (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). As consensus emerged regarding the normative trends and processes—if not concerning their interpretation—so the relative amount of attention paid to individual differences increased to the point that the vast majority of studies concerned with parent- infant relationships now focus on individual differences (Lamb, Thompson, Gardner, Charnov, & Estes, 1984).

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Lamb, M.E., Gilbride, K.E. (1985). Compatibility in Parent-Infant Relationships: Origins and Processes. In: Ickes, W. (eds) Compatible and Incompatible Relationships. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5044-9_3

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