Sentences with phrase «compulsive neatness»

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To illustrate, a mother who is preoccupied by her own eating disorder or her own obsessive — compulsive focus on neatness may, while observing her child eating a first spoon of food, be preoccupied by the child spilling the food or eating in an uncontrolled way rather than noticing the child's experimenting with all the aspects of eating (e.g., motor, smell, taste, texture and digestive).