Unmarried Mothers: A Study of the Self-Concept and Interpersonal Relations of Thirty Girls Known to St. Vincent's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, From July 15, 1964 to September 15, 1964
Abstract
Background of the Study. During the past two decades, increasing attention has been directed to the problem of unmarried motherhood. A comprehensive bibliography of all that has been written during this period would reveal the many-faceted nature of the problem, as well as the range of individuals and groups who are interested in it.It is true that unmarried mothers do not constitute a psychological entity in either a diagnostic, genetic or dynamic sense. Discussion of their personality patterns is in no way intended to mark them out as a special kind of people, but rather to define the special problems which trouble them as individuals.1 Studies of the psychology of unmarried mothers have covered a number of issues, including mental retardation; broken versus intact homes; and family dynamics, which stress the mother's relationship with her parents and siblings. Perhaps the psychoanalytic interpretations have been most popular. For this reason, unmarried motherhood has been viewed by many as "an act-ing-out of unresolved emotional conflicts and an attempt to resolve psychological disturbances whose genesis was in the mother's early relationship with one or both parents.
Subject Area
Womens studies|Psychology
Recommended Citation
Connolly, Eugene, "Unmarried Mothers: A Study of the Self-Concept and Interpersonal Relations of Thirty Girls Known to St. Vincent's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, From July 15, 1964 to September 15, 1964" (1965). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050497.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050497
