A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development

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Basic Books, Aug 1, 2008 - Psychology - 416 pages
The world-famous psychiatrist and author of the classic works Attachment, Separation, and Loss offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early intimate relationships.
 

Contents

The origins of attachment theory
20
Psychoanalysis as art and science
39
Psychoanalysis as a natural science
58
Violence in the family
77
On knowing what you are not supposed to know
99
The role of attachment in personality
119
Attachment communication and the therapeutic
137
Developmental psychiatry comes of age
158
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John Bowlby is honorary staff member of the Tavistock Clinic in London.

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