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primary maternal preoccupation

primary maternal preoccupation

in the object relations theory of British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott (1896–1971), a state immediately following childbirth in which a mother becomes preoccupied with her infant to the exclusion of everything else, which permits a heightened sensitivity to the child’s needs.

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