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...healthy growth, and even to life itself, is mother love. Psychiatrists who had recognized this for a generation or more sat alongside general physicians and social workers at the New York Academy of Medicine in Manhattan last week to see one of the striking visual proofs: Psychoanalyst Rene A. Spitz' 20 minute film, Grief...
...Spitz was doing research at a foundling home in a Latin American country (which he refuses to identify) when he started shooting his film. It was an old, established home, well equipped and, by all material standards, well run. Its 91 infant inmates had plenty of good food, clothing, light and air, and toys. Competent nurses fed and bathed them regularly. Only one thing was lacking: the nurses, each with ten children to care for, were too busy to stop and play with their charges. "Each infant had the equivalent of one-tenth of a mother," said Dr. Spitz...
Checking on what became of the motherless foundlings, Dr. Spitz found that no fewer than 27 (or 30%) died in their first year of life, and 21 who survived their time in the home were already so scarred by life that they could only be classed as idiots. Unfortunately, he could get no data on the survival or emotional response of the 32 who were placed with foster parents. Those who died, said Dr. Spitz, suffered a gradual breakdown under stress, beginning with loss of appetite and sleeplessness, and ending with inability to withstand even minor ailments. Love-starved, they...
...that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along the line an Irish setter got into the act, donating his bright ruddy color...
Mariano Rubino decided that Bellevue would be the safest place in town for his headquarters. Every morning at 10:30, he parked his sleek Cadillac in a nearby lot, walked briskly to the hospital with a little black spitz dog trotting beside him on a leash, and sat down in the waiting room. Nobody noticed him, or his customers. He left every evening...