overgratification

Material overindulgence, and maternal overgratification due to paternal absence was and remains common in such situations.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Massive frustration and restrictions, overgratification, inconsistency, and the lethal combination of both create a fertile ground for pathologic outcomes.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

The lack of sufficient gratifying early bonding, the repeated summer separations all her life, and the continued lack of maternal warmth created major trauma for Jan in this adolescent, second-edition separation/individuation struggle, whereby she was increasingly homebound, alternatively experiencing overgratification and frustration by her mother and overgratification by her father.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

If parents and educators mistakenly fulfill the assigned superego role of harsh disapproval or punishment or lower expectations and offer overgratification and permissiveness, they fail to keep the young person in the age-appropriate inner conflict and developmental struggle.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Shaw 1966 emphasized the emotional tone and style of a family, including overt and covert communications, excesses of love, and overgratification.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Children enjoy the gratification of the sense of taste, but at the age of thirty-five a man has lived enough and experienced enough so that he should know that the overgratification of appetites is an evanescent and unprofitable pleasure, always costing more than it is worth.

Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

A three-year-old boy would not understand his parents’ separation and divorce; and the frustration at loss of the father and overgratification through complete possession of the adored oedipal object, the mother, could well constitute a trauma.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986