A sublethal form, anaclitic depression was first described by René Spitz in the 1940s.

Spitz coined the term "anaclitic depression" to refer to partial emotional deprivation (the loss of a loved object).

Hospitalism (or anaclitic depression in its sublethal form) was a pediatric diagnosis used in the 1930s to describe infants who wasted away while in hospital.

Spitz valued several aspects: Infant observation and assessment, anaclitic depression (hospitalism), developmental transitions, the processes of effective communication, and understanding developmental complexity.

A sublethal form, anaclitic depression was first described by René Spitz in the 1940s.

Spitz coined the term "anaclitic depression" to refer to partial emotional deprivation (the loss of a loved object).

Hospitalism (or anaclitic depression in its sublethal form) was a pediatric diagnosis used in the 1930s to describe infants who wasted away while in hospital.

Spitz valued several aspects: Infant observation and assessment, anaclitic depression (hospitalism), developmental transitions, the processes of effective communication, and understanding developmental complexity.

The most severe deprivation disorder, hospitalism, was described in 1897 as a wasting away to the point of death.

Hospitalism; A follow-up report on investigation described in volume I, 1945.

He called this reaction to total deprivation "hospitalism".

Critics and advocates of hospitalism agree on one point: what matters most is what is best for the patient.

The North Shore Health System has embraced hospitalism, but on a smaller scale.

In 1945, Spitz investigated hospitalism in children in a foundling home.

"Hospitalism is not a mere cost-cutting measure," Dr. Wartman cautioned.

Rene Spitz, a psychoanalyst, undertook research in the 1930s and '40s on the effects of maternal deprivation and hospitalism.

J.P. Converted to Hospitalism.

Spitz valued several aspects: Infant observation and assessment, anaclitic depression (hospitalism), developmental transitions, the processes of effective communication, and understanding developmental complexity.

Deficiencies within this level of Maslow's hierarchy - due to hospitalism, neglect, shunning, ostracism, etc. - can impact the individual's ability to form and maintain emotionally significant relationships in general, such as:

But proponents of hospitalism argue that continuity of care is a myth and that changes in health coverage require people to switch doctors, while doctors often opt in and out of health plans.

In 1869, on the eve of our understanding the implication of specific germs that cause infections, the Edinburgh gynecologist Sir James Y. Simpson used the term "hospitalism" to describe the excessive mortality rate among postoperative patients in large urban hospitals.