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Becoming Attached - First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love (2nd ed.)
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The classic text on the history of attachment theory and its impact
on the field of child development, now in a fully expanded and
updated edition. A century ago, leading childcare experts were
miles apart in their recommendations to parents. Behaviorists
warned against spoiling children with too much affection ("Never
hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap") whereas
geneticists argued that affection matters little because our genes
alone determine who we are. Into this fray in the late 1930s
stepped John Bowlby, the British psychoanalyst whose work with
psychologist Mary Ainsworth would overturn the world of child
development and shape its trajectory for the next 70 years.
Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings
of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand what
children need and what constitutes good parenting. In this expanded
and fully updated new edition, psychotherapist and journalist
Robert Karen chronicles the origin of a groundbreaking idea -
attachment theory - and its resounding impact on the fields of
developmental psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. Karen
charts the historic course of attachment theory as it gained
notoriety and support-and not a little controversy. Do "securely
attached" children fare better as adults than "insecurely attached"
ones? What do children truly need to thrive? Can babies handle
prolonged separations? Presenting the origin story of an important
idea in child development, this new edition also reveals how
attachment research has exploded worldwide in the past several
years as evidence for the benefits of secure attachment continue to
grow. Karen explores the cutting-edge science examining the
relationship between infants and their caregivers - such as the
hidden world of synchronized play, fMRI studies that reveal neural
patterns of parental and receptive love, and the link between
attachment and genetics, wherein early experience changes the
expression of genes. Karen also tells a dramatic story of
scientists at work and at war, what happens when a theory such as
attachment becomes complicated by political and economic pressures,
and how its entanglement with gender roles and equity in the
workforce continue to overshadow research to this day. Karen shares
anecdotes drawn from his own practice to illuminate the challenges
many adults face in overcoming insecurities that may originate in
infancy and childhood, and how resulting harmful relationship
patterns may be quashed. Cementing its place as a classic text of
child development and its rich history, Becoming Attached has much
to say about both child and adult life, as readers will find it
impossible to read without reflecting on their own lives as
children, parents, and intimate partners in love or marriage.
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Imprint: |
OUP India
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Country of origin: |
India |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Robert Karen
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Pages: |
672 |
Edition: |
2nd ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-939879-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-939879-8 |
Barcode: |
9780199398799 |
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