John Bowlby and Attachment Theory

John 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