Attachment: Second Edition / Edition 2

by John Bowlby

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465005437
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	09/23/1983
Series:	Basic Books Classics Series
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.12(h) x 1.12(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

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

New York Times Book Review