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The making and breaking of affectional bonds / John Bowlby ; with a new introduction by Richard Bowlby.

By: Bowlby, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge classics: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xi, 212 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0415354811 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Making & breaking of affectional bonds Subject(s): Attachment behavior | Attachment behavior in children | Infants -- DevelopmentDDC classification: 618.9289
Contents:
Psychoanalysis and child care (1956-8) -- An ethological approach to research in child development (1957) -- Childhood mourning and its implications for psychiatry (1961) -- Effects on behaviour of disruption of an affectional bond (1967-8) -- Separation and loss within the family (1968-70) -- Self-reliance and some conditions that promote it (1970-3) -- The making and breaking of affectional bonds (1976-7).
Summary: These essays, spanning 20 years of Bowlby's speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic. They make an excellent introduction to his thought. --British Journal of Psychiatry John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviorally-challenged children. Soon after, the spark of his illustrious career would help parents and psychologists arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well known humanity and lucidity, these key lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby¿s thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

Originally published: Making & breaking of affectional bonds. London : Tavistock Publications, 1979.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-201) and index.

Psychoanalysis and child care (1956-8) -- An ethological approach to research in child development (1957) -- Childhood mourning and its implications for psychiatry (1961) -- Effects on behaviour of disruption of an affectional bond (1967-8) -- Separation and loss within the family (1968-70) -- Self-reliance and some conditions that promote it (1970-3) -- The making and breaking of affectional bonds (1976-7).

These essays, spanning 20 years of Bowlby's speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic. They make an excellent introduction to his thought. --British Journal of Psychiatry John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviorally-challenged children. Soon after, the spark of his illustrious career would help parents and psychologists arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well known humanity and lucidity, these key lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Psychoanalysis and Child Care (1956-1958)
  • An Ethological Approach to Research in Child Development (1957)
  • Childhood Mourning and Its Implications for Psychiatry (1961)
  • Effects on Behaviour of Disruption of an Affectional Bond (1967-1968)
  • Separation and Loss within the Family (1968-1970)
  • Self-reliance and Some Conditions that Promote It (1970-1973)
  • The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (1976-1977)
  • References
  • Name
  • Index Subject
  • Index

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