Childrearing, Culture and Mental Health Exploring an Ethological-Evolutionary Perspective
in Child Psychiatry and Preventive Mental Health

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Health and an Evolutionary Perspective
• The "Contragenetic" or "Basic Distrust" Thesis:
  • 1. Childbirth, Lactation, Early Mothering and Attachment
  • 2. The Basic Distrust Orientation to Childrearing
  • 3. Social Settings Relevant to Parenting Behaviour
• A Trusting, Cooperative Approach to Childrearing
• Clinical Applications, Conclusion, Acknowledge­ments, Addendum
• References

Special Supplement to The Medical Journal of Australia, August 12, 1978.
(The whole of the Literary Matter in The Medical Journal of Australia is Copyright)

Dr. Peter S. Cook is a retired Sydney, Australia child and family psychiatrist, who writes on preventive child and family mental health. He is the author of Early Child Care: Infants and Nations at Risk (Melbourne: News Weekly Books, 1997).

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