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This 6 page paper looks at the life and work of John Bowlby, the British psychoanalytic theorist who developed attachment theory with Mary Ainsworth. The paper starts by looking at his early life and how this may have impacted on his work before moving onto his main contributions looking at the context in which they were developed and how they are viewed today. The bibliography cites 9 sources.
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controversial, contradicting the accepted theories of the time, but it was work reflected his own experiences and beliefs. During his life he produced in excess of 150 publications, the most
notable being a trilogy; Attachment first published in 1969, Separation first published in 1973 and Loss first published in 1980. These reflected his major contribution to the area of psychology;
Attachment Theory. Bowlby was born in 1907, the fourth of six children, to an upper middle class family (Coates, 2003). Johns father was the renowned surgeon Sir Anthony Bowlby,
who was distant having suffered his own traumas as a child (Coates, 2003). During Johns childhood the family would split the year between their home in London and the Isle
of Skye. On London the children would see their mother for only one hour each day when she would read to her children after tea, but during the summer when
they resided on the Isle of Skye she would play a more active role in the lives of her children, taking them for walks (Coates, 2003). Therefore the primary caregiver
and most stable influence was the nanny, who left when he was four years old (Coates, 2003). It may be argued that this event led to Johns insights as an
adult when studying the attachment of children to their mothers. He stated that "for a child to be looked after entirely by a loving nanny and then for her to
leave when he is two or three, or even four or five, can be almost as tragic as the loss of a mother (Bowlby, 1958). The separation issues not stop
here, at age seven he was sent to boarding school. This must also have been traumatic, as it there is an apparent reference to this experience in the beginning of
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