
Loss (Attachment and Loss Volume 3)
Dr E J M Bowlby
In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expression of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality development and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm.
Attachment and Loss is a deeply important series of works that continue to influence the landscape of psychoanalysis and psychology, and Loss its revelatory closing chapter.
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Sunday Times
The publication of Attachment and Loss will prove a turning point in the history of psychoanalysis and in psychology generally.
Times Literary Supplement
There can be no question that Bowlby is making a major contribution to the understanding of deviant emotional development in childhood and after.
Child Psychology and Psychiatry