John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy)
Jeremy Holmes
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0415629039
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Second edition, completely revised and updated
John Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition of John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is both a biographical account of Bowlby and his ideas and an up-to-date introduction to contemporary attachment theory and research, now a dominant force in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy and child development.
Jeremy Holmes
traces the evolution of Bowlby’s work from a focus on delinquency, material deprivation and his dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis's imperviousness to empirical science to the emergence of attachment theory as a psychological model in its own right. This new edition traces the explosion of interest, research and new theories generated by Bowlby’s followers, including Mary Main’s discovery of Disorganised Attachment and development of the Adult Attachment Interview, Mikulincer and Shaver’s explorations of attachment in adults and the key contributions of Fonagy, Bateman and Target. The book also examines advances in the biology and neuroscience of attachment.
Thoroughly accessible yet academically rigorous, and written by a leading figure in the field, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is still the perfect introduction to attachment for students of psychology, psychiatry, counselling, social work and nursing.
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analysis when the traumatic factors enter the psychoanalytic material in the patient's own way, and within the patient's omnipotence. (Winnicott, 1965) Winnicott's phrase, ‘bringing into omnipotence’, is an example of the combination of clinical accuracy with theoretical fuzziness that Bowlby was keen to remedy in psychoanalysis. It also reflects Winnicott's ambivalence about Klein. He is straining both to be true to his clinical experience (that is, that what is good and bad in a damaged
Sarah and Peter, described earlier, provide examples of this point. Sarah would start each session in a bright and breezy way, referring to the weather or to current events as she entered the consulting room. The therapist instinctively did not respond in kind – in a way that would, from the point of view of affiliation, seem almost rude. It was clear from her history that she had always managed to avoid intimacy through group living, and by making sure she was the ‘life-and-soul’ in any
of their frustrations and disappointments with the boy. Bowlby countered this by suggesting that their nagging had contributed to his behaviour, but suggested that this had to be understood in the context of their own unhappy childhoods: After 90 minutes the atmosphere changed very greatly and all three were beginning to have sympathy for the situation of the others… they found themselves co-operating in an honest endeavour to find new techniques for living together, each realising that there
agoraphobic is recruited to alleviate parental separation anxiety; b) fears in the patient that something dreadful may happen to her mother while they are separated (often encouraged by parental threats of suicide or abandonment); and c) fear that something dreadful might happen to herself when away from parental protection. Central to the theory and treatment of phobic disorders is the idea that painful feelings and frightening experiences are suppressed and avoided rather than faced and