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John Bowlby · 1969
A three-volume psychoanalytic work examining how young children respond to separation from their mothers and the theoretical implications for understanding attachment, loss, and psychopathology. Bowlby synthesizes empirical observations with psychoanalytic theory to explain the origins and development of pathological processes stemming from early maternal deprivation.
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What this book knows
Proximity-seeking to a trusted caregiver is a primary biological need, and its disruption is the root of anxiety, grief, and psychopathology.
grief
missing someone who is loved and longed for is one of the keys we need, and the particular form of anxiety to which separation and loss give rise leads to great and widespread suffering
AL-RC-103a child protesting loss of his principal attachment figure is regarded as having been spoilt; an adolescent apprehensive of desertion is regarded as over-dependent or phobic
AL-RC-078belonging
a principal source of anxiety and distress is separation from loved figures, or the threat of separation — there has been great reluctance to accept that simple formula
AL-RC-081the child's heightened anxiety over separation is a reaction not to excess of parental affection but to threats by a parent to withdraw love or to abandon the child
AL-RC-131trauma-and-survival
for the fourteen anxiously attached children the total number of discontinuities between nine months and the third birthday was fifty-two, an average of nearly four apiece
AL-RC-128when such people become adults they have no confidence that a caretaking figure will ever be truly available; through their eyes the world is seen as comfortless and unpredictable
AL-RC-1236 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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