Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

The tumultuous history of the attachment idea—-and the pioneers who fought for it. Now in a fully expanded and updated 30th anniversary edition.

Robert Karen's Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand what children need and what constitutes good-enough parenting.

A century ago, most childcare experts were clueless about love and its role in child development. Behaviorists warned against spoiling children with...