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CONSIDER THE EXTENT TO WHICH PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN EXPLAINING ATTATCHMENTS Bowlby's Theory of Attachment
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CONSIDER THE EXTENT TO WHICH PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN EXPLAINING ATTATCHMENTS Bowlby's Theory of Attachment The theory of attachment was originally developed by John Bowlby (1907 - 1990). Bowlby was a British psychoanalyst who was attempting to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents. Bowlby's first formal statement of the attachment theory, building on concepts from ethology and developmental psychology, was presented to the British Psychoanalytic Society in London in three now classic papers: "The Nature of the Child's Tie to His Mother" (1958), "Separation Anxiety" (1959), and "Grief and Mourning in Infancy and Early Childhood" (1960). According to Bowlby infants have an innate tendency to become attached to one particular individual. This was referred to as monotropy. During his research Bowlby observed how infants who became separated from their primary caregiver, such as it's mother, would go to extraordinary lengths to either...
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