To what extent are the effects of privation reversible

Privation, or the failure to form an emotional attachment, was originally conceived by Rutter (1981) in an evaluation of studies taken as support for Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis/He suggested that Bowlby did not differentiate between studies that examined the outcomes of bond-disruption (where an attachment has been formed and is then lost) and the absence of a bond altogether ... ................
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