John Bowlby and Attachment Theory 2nd edition

Holmes examines attachment theory as developed by British psychiatrist Bowlby (1907-90) and others. After a biographical chapter, he covers maternal deprivation; attachment, anxiety, and internal working models; loss, anger, and grief; the research evidence for attachment theory and personality development; psychoanalysis; the practice of psychotherapy; mental health; and society. The second edition takes account of the many books now available about attachment theory, but remains a small-scale introductory summary of its main themes, research base, and therapeutic implications. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Second edition, completely revised and updatedJohn Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition ofJohn 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.