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.
Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectur...
As Bowlby himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Giving time and attention to children means sacrificing other interests and activities, but for many people today these are unwelcome truths. Bowlby's work showed that the early interactions between infant and caregiver have a profound impact on an infant's social, emotional, and intellectual growth. Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of Bowlby's lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on...
As Bowlby himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Giving ti...
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues Bowlby's work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and considers separation and the anxiety that accompanies it: the fear of imminent or anticipated separation, the fear induced by parental threats of separation, and the inversion of the parent-child relationship.
The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues Bowlby's work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and considers separat...
John Bowlby examines and explains the processes that take place in attachment and separation, emphasising that human attachment is an instinctive response to the need for protection.
John Bowlby examines and explains the processes that take place in attachment and separation, emphasising that human attachment is an instinctive resp...