Bøger af John Bowlby

En sikker base er John Bowlbys sidste værk og samler otte forelæsninger fra 1979-88 om tilknytningsteori og det terapeutiske arbejde. Hvad enten ens primære tilknytningsmønster er trygt, undvigende eller ambivalent fortsætter denne adfærd i voksenlivet. Trygge børn er selvsikre og bruger forældrene som en “sikker base”, mens de udforsker verden. Bowlbys arbejde viste, at det tidlige samspil mellem spædbarn og omsorgsperson har stor indflydelse på barnets sociale, følelsesmæssige og intellektuelle vækst. Især identificerede Bowlby, i forlængelse af sit arbejde for WHO om hjemløse børns behov, hvordan misbrug, vold og omsorgssvigt i den tidlige barndom er nøglen til at forstå psykiske problemer hos voksne.Bowlbys ideer om tilknytningsteoriens kliniske anvendelse er samtidig en generel indføring i tilknytningsteoriens psykologi, hvilket gør den ideel som grundbog. En sikker base udkom oprindeligt i 1988 [1994 på dansk], men genudgives nu, da den stadig er fundamentet for diskussion af, hvordan vi skal forstå betydningen af tidlige relationer. Den er med andre ord en psykologisk og pædagogisk klassiker.Nyt forord ved Jeremy Holmes.Indholdsfortegnelse1. Omsorg for børn2. Tilknytningsteoriens udvikling3. Psykoanalyse som praksis og videnskab4. Psykoanalyse som naturvidenskab5. Vold i familien6. Om at vide, hvad man ikke må vide og føle, hvad man ikke må føle7. Tilknytningens rolle i personlighedsudviklingen8. Tilknytning, kommunikation og den terapeutiske proces“John Bowlby var en af de mest indflydelsesrige stemmer inden for børnepsykiatri og -psykologi. Han udfordrede psykoanalysens grundlæggende principper og var en pioner inden for metoder til at undersøge børns følelsesliv” – The New York Times

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.

Bowlby's seminal contribution to the way we understand attachment concludes with an examination of loss. He offers not only a new developmental model but also rare insight into the dynamics of mourning, the problems of depression, and the processes of accommodation and healing. An appreciation by Daniel Stern, whose research on the mother/infant bond affirms and expands on Bowlby's work, fittingly graces this new edition.

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.

The world-famous psychiatrist and author of the classic works Attachment, Separation, and Loss offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early intimate relationships.

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.

A vivid and engrossing account of Darwin s inner life and his search for the laws of life. We feel the durable texture of his friendships and family attachments, and we witness the slow, painful genesis of ideas that are still transforming the world. Geoffrey Cowley, New York Times Book Review