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An Investigation of Relationship Between Birth-Duration and Childhood Anxieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

B. J. Bolin
B. J. Bolin*
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Central Hospital, Lakeland, Kentucky
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Historical Background. The possibility of relationship between a person's birth experiences and his later reaction tendencies has long been recognized. Such recognition is expressed in the ancient Chinese saying (translated approximately), “Difficult birth, difficult child”. As early as 1794, Erasmus Darwin (4) wrote that “the association of the disagreeable sensations and actions occasioned by birth” persists throughout life and forms the basis of all later fear reactions.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 441 , October 1959 , pp. 1045 - 1052
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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