Morgan, J. J. B. (1944). Review of Maternal Overprotection. [Review of the book Maternal Overprotection. D. M. Levy]. Psychological Bulletin, 41(6), 406-407.
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Reviews the book Maternal Overprotection by D.M. Levy (see record 1943-04306-000). From a total of approximately two thousand clinical cases passing through the Institute of Child Guidance, twenty cases of pure overprotection were selected by the application of four criteria: (a) excessive contact between mother and child, (b) prolongation of infantile care, (c) prevention of independent behavior by maternal interference, and (d) lack or excess of maternal control. The reviewer believes the treatment of the material provides a refreshing contrast to the all too common tendency to select portions from case materials for the obvious purpose of supporting some particular thesis. The section on treatment is characterized by the same straightforward honesty that permeates the examination of the case materials. The reviewer states that Levy has taken clinical material, subjected it to a screening process, and then has made as near an objective study of the cases who came through his criterion sieve as could well have been done. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)