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Meaning of "anaclitic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANACLITIC

From Greek anaklitos for leaning upon.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ANACLITIC

ˌænəˈklɪtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANACLITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anaclitic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANACLITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hospitalism

Hospitalism was a pediatric diagnosis used in the 1930s to describe infants who wasted away while in hospital. The symptoms could include retarded physical development, and disruption of perceptual-motor skills and language. It is now understood that this wasting disease was mostly caused by a lack of social contact between the infant and its caregivers. Infants in poorer hospitals were less subject to this disease since those hospitals could not afford incubators which meant that the hospital staff regularly held the infants. The term was used by the psychotherapist René Spitz in 1945, but its origins are older than this; it occurs in an editorial in Archives on Pediatrics as early as 1897. It appears under adjustment disorders at F43.2, in the World Health Organization's classification of diseases, ICD-10.

Definition of anaclitic in the English dictionary

The definition of anaclitic in the dictionary is of or relating to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on others or another.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANACLITIC

analytic · autocatalytic · catalytic · clitic · cytolytic · electrolytic · enclitic · fibrinolytic · glycolytic · hemolytic · heteroclitic · hydrolytic · lytic · pearlitic · politic · proclitic · proteolytic · psychoanalytic · pyrolytic · thrombolytic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANACLITIC

anachronic · anachronical · anachronically · anachronism · anachronistic · anachronistically · anachronous · anachronously · anaclastic · anaclinal · anaclisis · anacolutha · anacoluthia · anacoluthic · anacoluthically · anacoluthon · anaconda · anacoustic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANACLITIC

aerolitic · batholitic · body politic · chrysolitic · critic · encephalitic · Glagolitic · impolitic · marlitic · oolitic · ophiolitic · pelitic · rhyolitic · spherulitic · staurolitic · stromatolitic · syphilitic · the body politic · theodolitic · zeolitic · zoolitic

Synonyms and antonyms of anaclitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anaclitic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ANACLITIC

Find out the translation of anaclitic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of anaclitic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anaclitic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

anaclitic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

anaclítico
570 millions of speakers
en

English

anaclitic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

anaclitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اتكالي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

анаклитическим
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

anaclítico
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

anaclitic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

étayage
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Anaclitic
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

anaklitischen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

anaclitic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

anaclitic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Anaclitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anaclitic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டாம் நிலை மிக விருப்பப்பொருள்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अॅनाक्लाइटिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

anaclitic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

anaclitica
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

anaclitic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

анаклітіческім
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

anaclitic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

anaclitic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anaclitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anaclitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anaklitisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anaclitic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANACLITIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of anaclitic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «anaclitic».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anaclitic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANACLITIC»

Discover the use of anaclitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anaclitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
The concept of anaclitic object was introduced by Freud in 1914, in an effort to distinguish between two kinds of object choice — the anaclitic and narcissistic. In fact, this idea grew out of his earlier theory of anaclasis, which designated the ...
Edward Erwin, 2002
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Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Anaclitic. depression. Anal. character. being autism, looseness of associations, and affective disturbances) but acknowledged that, to a lesser extent, it could exist in normal people too. Sigmund Freud (1911e) borrowed Bleuler's concept to  ...
Salman Akhtar, 2009
3
Relatedness, Self-definition, and Mental Representation: ...
Blatt's psychoanalytic theory of depression: the anaclitic and introjective subtypes Blatt's (1974; Blatt, Auerbach and Levy 1997) psychoanalytic theory of depression focuses primarily on the extent and quality of interpersonal relatedness and ...
John Samuel Auerbach, Kenneth Neil Levy, Carrie Ellen Schaffer, 2005
4
Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression
According to Blatt, anaclitic depression is characterized by feelings of helplessness, weakness, depletion, and being unloved. The anaclitically depressed individual fears abandonment and struggles to maintain direct physical contact with a ...
Rick E. Ingram, Jeanne Miranda, Zindel V. Segal, 1998
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Psychotherapy Relationships that Work : Therapist ...
Anaclitic patients, those with greater investment in interpersonal relatedness, showed greater improvement in long-term supportiveexpressive psychotherapy, while introjective patients, those with greater investment in cognitive functioning,  ...
John C. Norcross University of Scranton, 2002
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The Language of Psychoanalysis
(u) The term 'anaclitic' is sometimes used in a looser sense which is not directly connected with the use of the idea in the Freudian theory, as for example in the expression 'anaclitic depression". (1) Fri ud, S.: a) G.W., V, 82; S.E., VII, 181-82. b)  ...
Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, 1988
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Anaclitic and Introjective Personality Distinctions Among ...
S. J. Blatt and colleagues (e.g.
David Dix Kemmerer, 2006
8
Therapeutic Change: An Object Relations Perspective
Moreover, although the three-way interaction was not significant, planned comparisons indicated that the anaclitic men scored significantly higher on identification than introjective men [f(43) = 2.58; p<.01] and somewhat higher than anaclitic ...
Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford, William H. Berman, 1994
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Emotional Communication: Countertransference analysis and ...
page number. activating repetitions 169–70 affect, non-interpretative object emotional communications with 245–8 affective tone 60, 61, 63 afflicted ego 160, 161, 173, 174–6, 178, 209, 302; anaclitic emotional communications 273, 282, 285, ...
Paul Geltner, 2012
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Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Scientific ...
Blatt and colleagues introduced the anaclitic–introjective distinction into the evaluation of data from two major studies of patients receiving long-term, intensive, psychodynamically oriented treatment—outpatients in the Menninger ...
Theodore Millon, Robert F. Krueger, Erik Simonsen, 2011

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANACLITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anaclitic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Manufacturing Consent on Same Sex Marriage
Non-adherents are threatened with social isolation and anaclitic depression. Though we don't often recognize it, the tyrannical tool wielded ... «American Thinker, Feb 14»
2
Why Torture is Wrong
Early research on children showed that babies could even die from what was called “anaclitic depression”, that is a serious impairment in an ... «CounterPunch, Oct 13»
3
Wadley, a Three-Year-Old Boy with Clinical Depression
There are thousands of children like Wadley in Haiti and all around the world, including the U.S. He has anaclitic depression and no sense of ... «Huffington Post, Jan 13»
4
Scientific Consensus and Expert Testimony: Lessons from the Judas …
Kupper, D., and H. Gerard. 1990. Anaclitic depression and bulimia. Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA. «Skeptical Inquirer, Feb 01»
REFERENCE
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