The First Year of Life

René A. Spitz

352 pages · about 6 hours
First published 1965
2 editions

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1 About this book

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Child psychology
Existentialism
Infant
Parent and child
Psychoanalysis
Parent-Child Relations
Communism

2 About René A. Spitz

1887–1974

René Árpád Spitz (German:; January 29, 1887 – September 14, 1974) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst. He is best known for his analysis of hospitalized infants in which he found links between marasmus and death with unmothered infants. Spitz also made significant contributions to the school of ego psychology.

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