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Attachment - (Basic Books Classics) by John Bowlby (Paperback)

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  • The classic work of psychology that introduced attachment theory to the world "The most complete examination of the implications of attachment and loss of mother to infant yet written...Brilliant.
  • About the Author: John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a British psychiatrist and longtime director of child psychology at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
  • 464 Pages
  • Psychology, Developmental
  • Series Name: Basic Books Classics

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Bowlby's magisterial trilogy analyzes the impact of attachment, separation, and loss, and this first volume focuses on the critical role of the bond between mother and infant in emotional development. Allan Schore, whose pioneering synthesis of neurobiology with attachment research has shown how the brain gets into the act, contributes a foreword that catapults Bowlby's legacy into the new millennium.



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The classic work of psychology that introduced attachment theory to the world

"The most complete examination of the implications of attachment and loss of mother to infant yet written...Brilliant." --New York Times

In Attachment, psychologist John Bowlby examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother, elucidating the processes of attachment and separation. He demonstrates that human attachment is an instinctive response to the need for protection against predators, and one as important for survival as nutrition and reproduction. The first of three volumes in Attachment and Loss, Attachment offers the fullest expression of Bowlby's theory of attachment behavior, how it develops, how it is maintained, and what functions it fulfills.



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"[Attachment] is an exhaustive, closely reasoned study with numerous fascinating bypaths...an excellent definitive work of great importance."--The New York Times

"Bowlby has done for attachment what Dickens did for poverty by shining his spotlight on an underrepresented universal phenomenon--the human propensity to form affectional bonds and the consequences of their loss and disruption. By mapping the largely uncharted terrain of parent-child attachments and identifying their major configurations (secure and insecure), he has irreversibly reshaped our conceptions of normal and pathological development. Bowlby's work has inspired a generation of developmental researchers as well as a growing number of clinicians who find that attachment theory illuminates both the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic process. It will remain pivotal to any serious debate on human development."--Diana Diamond

"Bowlby's focus on attachment relationships blazed a new path for late twentieth-century developmentalists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists. Historians of science will place Bowlby with Freud, Darwin and Lorenz in redefining the role of the person in his social context, and his work--like that of all truly great authors--must be read in the original: its richness and foresight are breathtaking.
In terms of bridging the epistemologies of natural science and psychotherapy, it stands alone; its value increases by the day as discovery upon discovery confirms the basic truth of his insights. No modern researcher on child development, no healer of minds troubled by adversity in childhood, can afford to work in ignorance of Bowlby's writings."--Peter Fonagy

"It seems almost incredible that, until Bowlby, no one had placed attachment at the center of human development."--Daniel N. Stern

"One of the most influential books of the century."--Stephen A. Mitchell

"This great work, to paraphrase Goethe, stands as new as on its founding day. Indeed, one of the most outstanding features of Bowlby's trilogy is that it remains undated, thirty years after its original publication. Moreover, and remarkably, all three volumes are even now sources for state-of-the-art research in attachment. Rereading them reveals that more than a few ideas some of us have considered new (including some of my own) appeared first in these pages."--Mary Main



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John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a British psychiatrist and longtime director of child psychology at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Celebrated as "one of the most fertile, incisive thinkers about children of our century" (New York Times), his work pioneered attachment theory. He was the author of A Secure Base as well as the highly influential Attachment and Loss trilogy, whose Attachment, Separation, and Loss transformed psychoanalysis, childcare, and the study of attachment behavior.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.18 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .99 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.08 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 464
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Developmental
Series Title: Basic Books Classics
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Paperback
Author: John Bowlby
Language: English
Street Date: September 23, 1983
TCIN: 77263160
UPC: 9780465005437
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-1603
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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