This unique book identifies nine central questions facing the field and invites leading authorities to address them in 46 succinct chapters.

Provides a comprehensive report on the mother-child bond and the emotional effects of and behavioral response to maternal deprivation.

Using John Bowlby's Attachment Theory as a frame of reference, Attachment and Loss in the Works of James Joyce critically analyzes James Joyce's representation of grief.

This is the first known book to appear which brings together John Bowlby and post-Bowlbian research and shows how the findings of Attachment Theory can inform the practice of psychotherapy.

Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health.

John Bowlby (1907 - 1990) was a world famous psychiatrist and, as the father of attachment theory, he identified early abuse and neglect as key factors in adult psychological problems Supported by the simultaneous publication of The Making ...

This book defines the centrality of love and loss in human life and in human meaning.