The nature and nurture of love : from imprinting to attachment in Cold War America /
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| Author / Creator: | Vicedo, Marga. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013. |
| Description: | ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's c.2 has dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9128252 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. From Imprinting to Attachment
- Chapter 1. Mother Love as the Cradle of the Emotional Self
- Introduction
- Becoming Emotional
- Between Overprotection and Deprivation: The Mother-Child Dyad Takes Center Stage
- John Bowlby: The Mother as the Psychic Organizer
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. The Study of Instincts
- Introduction
- Ethology: Lorenz and Tinbergen Search for the Biological Basis of Behavior
- The Nature of Instincts
- Imprinting
- The WHO Meetings: Imprinting from Birds to Infants
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Bowlby's Ethological Theory of Attachment Behavior: The Nature and Nurture of Love for the Mother
- Introduction
- From Natural Description to Social Prescription: Infants' Needs and the Tragedy of Working Mothers
- Challenging the Studies on Maternal Deprivation
- Uniting Psychoanalysis and Ethology: The Nature of the Child's Tie to the Mother
- The Power of Natural Love
- Conclusion
- 2. Challenging Instincts
- Chapter 4. Against Evolutionary Determinism: The Role of Ontogeny in Behavior
- Introduction
- Daniel Lehrman: Against Konrad Lorenz's Theory of Instincts
- Behavior without Predetermination: Lehrman on Maternal Care
- The Impossibility of Isolating the Innate
- Hinde against Drives
- Critique of Imprinting
- Lorenz's Defense
- Lehrman Redux
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Psychoanalysts against Biological Reductionism
- Introduction
- Freud on Instincts
- Psychoanalysis and Ethology: Natural Allies?
- Anna Freud
- Max Schur
- René Spitz
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Primate Love: Harry Harlow's Work on Mothers and Peers
- Introduction
- Harry Harlow
- In Search of the Origins of Love: Contact or Food?
- The Machine (or the Father) in the Nursery
- The Machine Produces Monsters: Bring Back Natural Mother Love
- The Power of Peers
- The Moral of the Story: Surprise!
- Conclusion
- 3. Naturalizing Nurture
- Chapter 7. The Nature of Love: Mary Ainsworth's Observational and Experimental Work
- Introduction
- Mary Ainsworth: From Assistant to Defender
- Patterns of Behavior: From Uganda to Baltimore via London
- Assumptions and Displacements: From Relation to Correlation to Causation
- The Biological Foundations of Attachment
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Reinforcing Each Other and a Normative View of Nature
- Introduction
- Lorenz Appeals to Psychoanalysis
- Bowlby Appeals to Ethology
- Normative Nattire: From the Natural to the Social
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Infants, Instincts, and Mothers
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
