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.