Becoming attached : unfolding the mystery of the infant-mother bond and its impact on later life /

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Author / Creator:Karen, Robert.
Imprint:New York : Warner Books, c1994.
Description:ix, 500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1750058
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ISBN:0446516341 : $24.95
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p.471-485) and index.
Table of 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. 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. Appendix: Typical Patterns of Secure and Anxious Attachment.