The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds [Paperback]

John Bowlby (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415043263 | ISBN-13: 978-0415043267 | Publication Date: December 31, 1990 | Edition: New edition

This selection of key lectures by John Bowlby includes the long and important one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well known humanity and lucidity, taken together, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work. In addition to the basic principles with which they are mainly concerned, they also contain much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

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These essays, spanning 20 years of Bowlbys speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic. They make an excellent introduction to his thought. They will be invaluable to teachers, and are good reading for anyone who has pondered these problems and observed how Bowlby has clarified and sharpened this vital question - what makes human love and sadness? - British Journal of Psychiatry

About the Author

Dr John Bowlby (1907-1990) was the father of Attachment Theory. He worked for many years as Child and Family Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and became internationally reknowned for his writings in the area of child psychiatry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (December 31, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415043263
• ISBN-13: 978-0415043267
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,720,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impression of Bowlby's ideas, September 6, 2008

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Marianne Vanderveen (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RC Series Bundle: The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)

Attachment is a subject I'm very much interested in. I already ordered two parts of Bowlby's trilogy 'Attachment and Loss', but this title, 'The making and breaking of affectional bonds', was a very captive introduction to his theory. Like many books, I read it with a pencil close by in order to be able to highlight what struck me as important and useful for future situations (writing a story, making a powerpoint). Well... I used the pencil a lot! The way Bowlby explains how bonding processes works and the fact that most of this theory still has the value it had when it was written with today's authors building upon it, is very impressive. I look forward to reading the trilogy and get an even more comprehensive understanding of what attachment is all about and how big the impact is when the process doesn't get off to a good start or is disturbed somewhere along the line. When we better understand in what ways symptoms may show underlying problems, we will all be able to better support loved ones and make up for what was lost.
Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great presentation of a central psychoanalytic concept!, January 21, 2010

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This review is from: RC Series Bundle: The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)

Bowlby develops an integration of learning theory with the developmental theories of Piaget and Freud.