Attachment
Recommended by Simon Baron-Cohen, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #44 in Developmental Psychology
This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills. In the fifteen years since Attachment was first published, there have been major developments in both theoretical discussion and empirical research on attachment. The second edition, with two wholly new chapters and substantial revisions,... more
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Simon Baron-Cohen In essence he told us something that we all knew, which was that the bond between a parent and a child is really important. (Source)
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