This film illustrates forms of mother-child relations and their influence on the child. A brief anamnesis of the mother's pregnancy is confronted with her behavior during breast feeding in an attempt to present the biological and psychological factors that will influence the emergent mother-child relations and will decide the future attitude of the mother to her child. Five mothers, breast-feeding their children, are successively shown. The behavior of the mothers in feeding and play situations is shown to be an expression of their conscious or unconscious wishes of what their children should be like. Five children are shown. Each is followed by a catamnesis of the further development of the child, showing how much the child's personality is a product of the mother's wishes and how much it molds itself to the picture she has of him. Silent © 1953 Rene Spitz, M.D., Psychology. From the Psycholoanalytic Research Project on Problems in Infancy film studies. © 1953 silent
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