Second edition, completely revised and updatedJohn Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition of John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is both a biographical account of Bowlby and his ideas and an up-to-date introduction to contemporary attachment theory and research, now a dominant force in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy and child development.
Jeremy Holmes traces the evolution of Bowlby-s work from a focus on delinquency, material deprivation and his dissatisfaction with psychoanalysis''s imperviousness to empirical science to the emergence of attachment theory as a psychological model in its own right. This new edition traces the explosion of interest, research and new theories generated by Bowlby-s followers, including Mary Main-s discovery of Disorganised Attachment and development of the Adult Attachment Interview, Mikulincer and Shaver-s explorations of attachment in adults and t
