Becoming Attached: First Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love
- ISBN-10
- 0195115015
- ISBN-13
- 9780195115017
- Category
- Attachment behavior
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Robert Karen
Description
In this "provocative primer on the nature versus nurture debate" ("Mirabella"), psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insights into some of the most fundamental questions of emotional life. He traces the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, and Mary Ainsworth, an American developmental psychologist, who together launched a revolution in child psychology.
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 500 pages
- Paperback
- Grand Central Pub
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