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In this essay I will be looking at two theories of attachment, Kegan et al 1982 and Bowlby '58.
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In this essay I will be looking at two theories of attachment, "an intense emotional relationship...enduring over time and in which prolonged separation...is accompanied by stress and sorrow" (Kagan et al 1982). I will also attempt to evaluate the statement from Bowlby '58, where he says that "Mother love in infancy is as important for mental health as are vitamins and protein for physical health". The two attachment theories I will be looking at are Bowlby's 1953 Monotrophy Theory and Freud's Psychoanalytical Theory. Bowlby initially argued that attachment is an adaptive behaviour due to the human instinct to survive. Infants are born with a predisposition to survive and therefore have to form an attachment in order to gain food, warmth and protection etc. In order for this interaction to take place, the infant is born with Innate Social Releasers that prompt care-giving from the parent through releasers such as crying and...
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