John Bowlby

Attachment and Loss. Vol. I. Attachment.

Attachment and loss: Retrospect and prospect.

An historical sketch of the manner in which evidence has accumulated showing the ill effects of separation, loss, and maternal deprivation during the early years, and of how, in...

The nature of the child’s tie to his mother 1

This chapter begins describing very briefly few alternative views which in greater or less degree of purity are to be found in the psychoanalytic and other psychological litera...

Attachment and Loss

The making & breaking of affectional bonds

R. Bowlby, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition. Preface. Psychoanalysis and Child Care. An Ethological Approach to Research in Child Development. Childhood Mourning and it...