| Description |
ix, 500 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: How Do We Become Who We Are? -- pt. I. What Do Children Need? 1. Mother-Love: Worst-Case Scenarios. 2. Enter Bowlby: The Search for a Theory of Relatedness. 3. Bowlby and Klein: Fantasy vs. Reality. 4. Psychopaths in the Making: Forty-four Juvenile Thieves. 5. Call to Arms: The World Health Report. 6. First Battlefield: A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital. 7. Of Goslings and Babies: The Birth of Attachment Theory. 8. "What's the Use to Psychoanalyze a Goose?" Turmoil, Hostility, and Debate. 9. Monkey Love: Warm, Secure, Continuous -- pt. II. Breakthrough: The Assessment of Parenting Style. 10. Ainsworth in Uganda. 11. The Strange Situation. 12. Second Front: Ainsworth's American Revolution -- pt. III. The Fate of Early Attachments. 13. The Minnesota Studies: Parenting Style and Personality Development. 14. The Mother, the Father, and the Outside World: Attachment Quality and Childhood Relationships. 15. Structures of the Mind: Building a Model of Human Connection. |
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16. The Black Box Reopened: Mary Main's Berkeley Studies. 17. They Are Leaning Out for Love: The Strategies and Defenses of Anxiously Attached Children, and the Possibilities for Change. 18. Ugly Needs, Ugly Me: Anxious Attachment and Shame. 19. A New Generation of Critics: The Findings Contested -- pt. IV. Give Parents a Break! Nature-Nurture Erupts Anew. 20. Born That Way? Stella Chess and the Difficult Child. 21. Renaissance of Biological Determinism: The Temperament Debate. 22. A Rage in the Nursery: The Infant Day-Care Wars. 23. Astonishing Attunements: The Unseen Emotional Life of Babies -- pt. V. The Legacy of Attachment in Adult Life. 24. The Residue of Our Parents: Passing on Insecure Attachment. 25. Attachment in Adulthood: The Secure Base vs. The Desperate Child Within. 26. Repetition and Change: Working Through Insecure Attachment -- pt. VI. The Odyssey of an Idea. 27. Avoidant Society: Cultural Roots of Anxious Attachment. 28. Looking Back: Bowlby and Ainsworth. |
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Appendix: Typical Patterns of Secure and Anxious Attachment. |
| Summary |
How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own childrenseemingly against our will - the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? And how do we pass on to our children our capacities to love and create, as well as our insecurities, bad habits, and unresolved anxieties? These questions have long intrigued psychologists, philosophers, and novelists. In Becoming Attached, a book destined to become the seminal work on attachment theory for a general audience, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions of emotional life. Karen begins by tracing the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as they struggled in Britain and the United States to get their ideas about the profound effects of early childhood influences accepted. He chronicles thirty years of groundbreaking studies that address such issues as: What does a child need to feel that the world is a positive place and that he has value? Is day care harmful for children under one year old? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult? Which of us are more likely to raise troubled children? How can we be supported and how can we change? In a world of working parents and makeshift day care, the need to assess the impact of parenting styles and the bond between child and caregiver is more urgent than ever. Karen demonstrates how different approaches to mothering are associated with specific infant behaviors, such as clinginess, avoidance, or secure exploration. He shows how these patterns become ingrained and how they reveal themselves at age two, in the preschool years, in middle childhood, and in adulthood. And, with thought-provoking insights, he gives us a new understanding of how negative patterns can be changed and resolved throughout a person's life. More than an eye-opening presentation of the fierce debates that have transformed the way we think about human bonds, Becoming Attached is also a voyage of personal discovery. It is impossible to read this material without reflecting on one's own life as a child, a parent, and an intimate partner in love and marriage. |
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Mother and infant.
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Attachment behavior.
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Mother and child.
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77.55 child, pre-school child (psychology)
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Attachment behavior. (OCoLC)fst00820762
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Mother and child. (OCoLC)fst01026878
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Mother and infant. (OCoLC)fst01026892
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Affektive Bindung (DE-588)4141551-6
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Kind (DE-588)4030550-8
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Mutter (DE-588)4040949-1
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Gehechtheid.
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Moeder-kind-relaties.
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77.55 child, pre-school child (psychology)
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0446516341 |
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9780446516341 |
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