The psychic development peculiarities of orphan children in early childhood

The peculiarities of the development of 45 orphan children who were bringing up in one Moscow's ''baby's home'' in early age from birth till first 3.5 years had been analysed. The ''orphan syndrome'' which was characterized by both alteration in affective background of personality and paraautistic appearance of deprivative character had been described. The article emphasized that the conditions of ordinary bringing up which were formed on the basis of standard creche and kinder garden programmes for normal children were unsufficient for orphan children in ''baby's home''. Deprivating psychopathological manifestations in orphan children must to attract attention of psychiatrists as well as psychologists toward the necessity of correction and prophylaxes of these disturbances with their direction on the softening of maternal deprivation consequences.