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Attachments The attachment theory talks about the early significance and developments of attachment between infants and their mothers. Attachment can be defined as intense, emotional ties to specific people. The attachment process can be divided into pre-attachment, discriminate and indiscriminate and multiple attachment phases. The development of specific attachment is shown through separation anxiety. The most influential versions of this approach was probably that of Sigmund Freud, who believed that the infants upset at the mothers absence is based on the crass fear that bodily needs would now go unsatisfied. The British psychiatrist john bowlby called this the cupboard theory of mother love. The cupboard theory of the infants tie to her mother has been criticized on several grounds. One problem is the fact that babies often show great interest in other people even those who have never fed them or satisfied their other bodily needs. Bolwbys theory of attachment He proposed that attachments results because...

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