John Bowlby and Attachment Theory

by HOLMES; JEREMY

• ISBN13: 9780415077309
• ISBN10: 0415077303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Attachment Theory is one of the most important theoretical developments in psychoanalysis to have emerged in the past half-century. It combines the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective insights of psychoanalysis, and has had an enormous impact in the fields of child development, socila work, psychology, and psychiatry.This is the first known book to appear which brings together John Bowlby and post-Bowlbian research and shows how the findings of Attachment Theory can inform the practice of psychotherapy. It also provides fascinating insights into the history of the psychoanalytic movement and looks at the ways in which Attachment Theory can help in the understanding of society and its problems.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Acknowledegments	x
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Origins
Biographical	13	(24)
Maternal deprivation	37	(24)
Part II Attachment Theory
Attachment, anxiety, internal working models	61	(25)
Loss, anger and grief	86	(17)
Attachment Theory and personality development: the research evidence	103	(24)
Part III Implications
Bowlby and the inner world: Attachment Theory and psychoanalysis	127	(22)
Attachment Theory and the practice of psychotherapy	149	(28)
Attachment Theory and psychiatric disorder	177	(23)
Attachment Theory and society	200	(10)
Epilogue	210	(7)
Glossary of terms relevant to Attachment Theory	217	(8)
Chronology of John Bowlby	225	(3)
Bibliography	228	(16)
Index	244