The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Routledge Classics) - Hardcover

Bowlby, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138834580 ISBN 13: 9781138834583

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'These essays, spanning twenty 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

About the Author:

Dr John Bowlby (1907-1990) was the father of Attachment Theory. He worked for many years as Child and Family Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and became internationally reknowned for his writings in the area of child psychiatry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138834580
• ISBN 13: 9781138834583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224