Attachment
by John Bowlby
This first volume of John Bowlby’s landmark Attachment and Loss series examines the relationship between infant and mother, beginning with the instinctive behaviours following birth and proceeding through the child’s later life.
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“Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment, first published in the 1950s, was a very simple but powerful idea. In essence he told us something that we all knew, which was that the emotional bond between a parent and a child is really important. What Bowlby’s studies have shown, now confirmed by scientists who came after him, is that the quality of your attachment to your parents can predict not just short-term outcomes, like how well you do at school and your social popularity, but also long-term outcomes like your risk of divorce and your risk of developing personality disorders in adulthood.” Read more...
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