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- Title
Psychology and History of Swaddling.
- Authors
FRENKEN, RALPH
- Abstract
The article presents a psychohistorical analysis of swaddling in Europe. According to the author, swaddling was historically derived from unempathic attitudes towards children and the projection of parental fantasies onto infants. It is suggested that children were fantasized as defective and strongly connected to evil, and that swaddling was a means of humanizing infants by molding them into appropriate shapes and behaviors. Details related to changes in child care behaviors based on medical science are presented. Other topics include early modern critics of swaddling, 20th and 21st century swaddling practices, and trauma.
- Subjects
EUROPE; SWADDLING; INFANT care; PSYCHOHISTORY; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; EMOTIONAL trauma; PROJECTION (Psychology); FANTASY (Psychology); HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Psychohistory, 2012, Vol 39, Issue 3, p219
- ISSN
0145-3378
- Publication type
Article