Sentences with phrase «affectionless psychopaths»

Findings: 14 children from the theft group were identified as affectionless psychopaths, 12 of those had experienced prolonged separation of more than six months from their mothers in their first two years of life whereas only 5 of the 30 children not classified as affectionless psychopaths * had experienced separations.

Only 17 % of the thieves not diagnosed as affectionless psychopaths had experienced maternal separation.

Bowlby found that 86 % of the «affectionless psychopaths» in group 1 («thieves) had experienced a long period of maternal separation before the age of 5 years (they had spent most of their early years in residential homes or hospitals and were not often visited by their families).

None of the control group were affectionless psychopaths.