Böcker av John Bowlby

As author himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of his lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships.

The experience of separation and the ensuing susceptibility to anxiety, anger, and fear constitute the flip side of the attachment phenomenon. In an authoritative new foreword to Bowlby's classic study, Stephen Mitchell (who gives resonant voice to the relational perspective in psychoanalysis) bridges the distance between attachment theory and the psychoanalytic tradition.

Informed by clinical experience, and written with the author's humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions. This selection of key lectures includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title.