... the mother. This was the start of his attachment theory and he went on to hypothesis his controversial maternal deprivation theory. According to Bowlby breaking the maternal bond with the child during its early years has serious implications as the child grows up and reaches adulthood. Some of the problems are intellectual and linguistic retardation, affectionless psychopathy, juvenile delinquency, depression, and bed wetting and deprivation dwarfism. Affectionless psychopathy is the inability to care and have deep feelings for other people together with the inability to experience guilt. Bowlby claimed that these problems were permanent and irreversible. The short term effects of maternal deprivation were broken down into three stages; Protest-a very intense stage, the child cries most of the time and seems very panic stricken. Despair-the child is apathetic and shows little interest in surroundings. The child shows total loss of hope. Detachment-the child seems to behave in a less distressed way, does not ...

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