Sentences with phrase «making emotional unavailability»

But for all the heartbreak that pumps through it, Kenneth Lonergan's ambitious third feature isn't some miserable slog: Anchored by a career - best performance from Affleck, who achieves the herculean feat of making emotional unavailability compelling, Manchester By The Sea is often as flat - out funny as it is wrenching.

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Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful arousal are associated with enduring hyper - arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be associated with infant disorganization.

A possible explanation for these results may be that daughters might maintain closer contact with their depressed mother than sons, making it more difficult for girls to overcome the emotional unavailability of the mother, and hence leading to more adverse developmental outcomes.