Attachment

Attachment and Loss #1

by John Bowlby, Allan N. Schore (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Parenting, Psychoanalysis, Relationships, Science, Counselling

468 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory.

Reviews

[Claudia Goodell · Rating 5 out of 5]

The theory of attachment is a deep passion of mine, and one I developed while attaining my BS in psychology. Later I studied under and worked with Tom Bower conducting infant research on newborns at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He taught me much about attachment as he had worked with John Bowlby.

[Esma T]

John Bowlby, Bağlanma Kuramını anlattığı üçlemenin ilk kitabı olan Bağlanma'da öncelikle insanlarda ve hayvanlarda bağlanma, içgüdü gibi konuları araştırmalardan yola çıkarak ele alıyor. Özellikle anneye bağlanma duygusunun her canlıda var olduğunu gösterdikten sonra son bölümlere doğru kendi kuramından bahsetmeye başlıyor, aslında kitabın merak ettiğim kısmı son bölümlerde yer alıyordu, geriye kalan çoğu konu diğer iki kitapta yer alacak belli ki. Ben kitabın dilini biraz sıkıcı bulduğumu itiraf etmeliyim, yazar gereksiz yere uzatmış gibi hissettim, üçlemenin devamını okumayı düşünmüyorum şimdilik. Yine de Bowlby'nin kuramı için pek çok araştırmadan yararlanmış olması etkileyici.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book begins as quite dry but once Bowlby begins talking about actual attachment it's very interesting. The preceding chapters (I'd guess over half the book) are focused on biology and evolutionary components that are interesting, but hard to apply directly to clinical work. It appears to me at least that in his writing Bowlby attempts to find a common ground between psychoanalysis (object relations and drive theory mainly) and a more behavioral output. He does however argue against behaviorism writ in stone, as stating that this is about external situations, whereas attachment (and analysis) are about internal experiences.

[Louise Sullivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read both Volumes 1 and 2. I would probably rate this as 3.75 stars. It is not easy reading but it's fascinating. This book is groundbreaking not just because of the introduction to attachment theory but also due to his observational methodology which was a new method in psychological research.

[Reix · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty interesting book, but not what I expected. It's very focused on attachment behaviour in animals, but when the author talks about human babies, is not very focused in the problems caused by bad attachment behaviour. And I have to recognize that the book is a bit boring...

[Dr. Lloyd E. Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Bowlby spent his professional life studying how a mother connects with her child and how children from the time of birth connect with his or her mother. This interaction is the major focus of attachment theory, Bowlby looks to biology and psychoanalytic thought as the perspectives offering hope to understanding this internal experience. Behaviorism, according to Bowlby, focuses on external variables, how the environment effects people. As such, behaviorism is a poor tool for understanding attachment.

Let me give you some of the pieces of gold I mined from this book:

Bowlby’s combining what appeared on the surface to be distantly related literatures now seems like a brilliant flash of intuition, converging his two most important intellectual influences, Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud

In stating that the infant is active in seeking interaction, that the mother’s maternal behavior is “reciprocal” to the infant’s attachment behavior, and that the development of attachment is related both to the sensitivity of the mother in responding to her baby’s cues and to the amount and nature of their interaction Bowlby offers a deep understanding of a crucial element in human development.

Minimizing unpleasant feelings and maximizing pleasant ones-is the driving force in human motivation.

Caregivers not only minimize the infant’s negative affective states but also maximize the infant’s positive affective states.

This is a sample of the flavor of this book. If these ideas interest you, read the book and you’ll discover hundreds more. If you don’t care about these ideas, walk on by or tap on the library pipes if the answer is “No.”

[malinkaa · Rating 2 out of 5]

.. a az na konci jsem se dozvedela neco o vazbe. no hura.

[Bookphenomena (Micky) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Foundational seminal work from Bowlby. It is important reading in order to understand research that has built on Bowlby's work. This work is relevant still to contemporary understanding of human attachment. Essential reading to understand the effect of attachment on consequent loss.

[Chris brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

worth reading, again, and again, Seriously if your not a psych major or professional you will read it again and again to understand

[Alensy Purbaningrum · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's good to help you finish your paper

[Mariana · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book helping me rethink my desastrous and damaging early childhood.

[Mandi Fuller · Rating 5 out of 5]

An insightful examination of the beginnings of childhood attachment theories.

[Izarra Chau · Rating 5 out of 5]

A classic that everyone should read.

[Dario Oliveri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bowlby, was ahead of his times.

I do not understand while only his "attachment theory" is studied.

This books teach many clever ways to go around the limits in the thinking of his time.

Not only in some instances you can clearly see he was anticipating the line of thought of Edgar Morin (Epistemology of complexity), but in this book wrote a pure Pearl.

"The emotions can be considered as a phase of our evaluation of the environment ".

This has to be contextualized, but he already realized, without even experimental data, that you cannot clearly separate emotions and thought.(As later demonstrated by many researchs, including the IOWA gambling task).

It's a pity that authors of this calibre are so rare, but I'm glad I studied from his work directly as it was a foundation for my book about a particular thesis: consciousness of subconscious itself.

The Knowledge of etology by Bowlby is extremly valuable in investigating subconscious from a naturalistic point of view.

Without Bowlby, my book "Fantasma Magico" wouldn't have been the same.

[Ana González Toledo · Rating 4 out of 5]

El apego y la perdida,
un libro con información etológica y social, difícil de leer, algunos capitulos pesados y redundantes, la teoria del apego como tal aparece hasta el capitulo 16 de 18 capitulos que tiene el libro, un largo preambulo, para cambiar el switch , y la perspectiva del lector, desde una vision biopsicosocial a una evolutiva y compartida por todos lo mamiferos especificando que los humanos como los simios, son sociales, hace una revision de todos los articulos hasta esa epoca realizados, acerca de las relaciones diádicas y principalmente de la observacion de niños recien nacidos hasta los 3 años, describe muestran de poblacion infantil , donde los datos fueron replicados en multiples trabajos y estadísticamente significativos, dentro de lo mas relevante se encuentra el que en una muestr estudiada se puede observar que el 70 % aproximadamente presentan un apego seguro, el 20% de la poblacion presento una manera de vincularse ansiosa y el 10% restante se comporto de una manera desornazida ambivalente, y fluctuante entre estados de ansiedad, aproximacion hacia la madre y rechazo hacia la misma despues de una breve ausencia, lo que los invetigadores llamaron apego: ansioso-rechazante. Dentro de los factores que modifican el curso normal de la evolución de los apegos, se describen la separaciones, el rechazo y la pérdida. cualquier comportamiento diádico y de apego desarrollado antes de los 3 años tiende a permanecer durante toda la vida. el apego es un modelo dinamico en el que para desarrollarse participan tanto la madre como el niño.

[Justina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a helpful book; I learned a lot about the importance of early childhood development. Here are three. First of all, according to Bowlby's book, children have an inborn need to attach, called monotropy, particularly during the critical period of the first 2.5 years, and if it does not happen, it may not ever.
Secondly, a disruption of that attachment (between the baby and a caregiver) could result in various difficulties for the child.
Thirdly, overall, the idea of attachment is a framework to understand social relationships in someone's community, to predict interactions with others in the world.

[Bernardo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short and painless, disappointing.

I read this I. The framework of my personality disorder study and the actual part in attachment takes up only a third of the book. Although interesting, I still do not understand the author‘s thought process why he would endlessly write on anything but attachment, from animal behavior to the relentless comparison to Freud and others. If you focus on attachment the you could either skip straight to chapter 3 without missing out on anything, or research the net for a summary on the topic

[Robert Bogue]

It was John Bowlby that began researching how early life relationships with parental figures, particularly mothers, impact the behaviors of children throughout their lives. In Attachment, he lays out what he and his colleagues discovered about how these early experiences work and what the impacts are.

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[funda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Serinin ilk kitabı, oldukça detaylı anlatılmış kuramın nasıl geliştiği. Primatlar ve diğer memeli örnekleri ile yapılan giriş sonrası gözlenen insan davranışları, mevcut referanslar ile açıklanmış. Öğrenmek çok güzel, hele ki böyle bilimsel yapıtlarla.

[Ipek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genel olarak dilini sıkıcı bulmama rağmen yarısından sonra yapılan deneylere değinmesiyle ilgimi çekti. Bağlanmanın her canlıda olduğunun belirtilmesi, beslenme ve temas ile ilgili teorileri, bakım veren-bebek ilişkisi konusunda doğru bilinen yanlışlar adına oldukça açıklayıcıydı.

[Aleš Bednařík · Rating 5 out of 5]

Náročné, ale mimoriadne zaujímavé čítanie.
Dokonca aj dlhý úvod vysvetľujúci etologické a evolučné princípy správania novorodencov je pútavým čítaním.
Výsledok: Väzobné správanie dieťaťa + starostlivosť matky = typ väzby dieťaťa na dôležité osoby v detstve aj dospelosti.

[Ece Şermet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tezimde bağlanma üzerine çalıştığım için masamda devamlı duran temel bir kaynak oldu. Bowlby tarafından açıklanan bağlanma kuramı üçlemesinin ilk kitabı olmasıyla birlikte, derinlemesine incelemeler içeriyor. İlgilendiğim bir konu olmasına rağmen dilinin sıkıcı geldiğini söyleyebilirim.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read to understand the theory of attachment.

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been absorbed for hours, it has answered so many of my questions and will be on my shelf as one of my most use reference books.

[Raymond Elliott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dry as a bowl of rice but well worth the time.

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

szybko się czytało nawet i było oki nie do końca tego się spodziewałam ale fsjne

[Kerem · Rating 2 out of 5]

Çok sıkıcı bir kitaptı atlaya atlaya okudum gereksiz yere uzatılmış ana konuya girememiş

[Leonardo]

Citado en el curso GG101x y también en el artículo de Pugno en Capabilities and Happiness.

[Sara_2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the basic studies...