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Attachment and Loss

Name: Attachment and Loss
Author: Dr John Bowlby
ISBN: 9780712674713

by Dr John Bowlby

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Overview

This first volume of John Bowlby’s Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child’s ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior—how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills.In the fifteen years since Attachment was first published, there have been major developments in both theoretical discussion and empirical research on attachment. The second edition, with two wholly new chapters and substantial revisions, incorporates these developments and assesses their importance to attachment theory.

About the Author, Dr John Bowlby

John Bowlby is honorary staff member of the Tavistock Clinic in London.

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New York Times Book Review

The most complete examination of the implications of attachment and loss of mother to infant yet written...an excellent definitive work of great importance.