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Becoming Attached : First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love by Robert Karen (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195115015
ISBN-139780195115017
eBay Product ID (ePID)638495
Product Key Features
Book TitleBecoming Attached : First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicParenting / Motherhood, Developmental / General
Publication Year1998
FeaturesReprint
GenreFamily & Relationships, Psychology
AuthorRobert Karen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length5.9 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-024822
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A tour de force....Beautifully written and a joy to read, it is a must for every parent and parent-to-be."--Michael Franz Basch, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College, Chicago, "Eloquent, dramatic, and inspiring....A masterful job."--Mary Ainsworth, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, "Truly a brilliant, fascinating, compelling, and beautifully written account....I teach infancy and parenthood...and would certainly assign [it] in all sections."--Arietta Slade, Department of Psychology, City College, "A very readable and comprehensive explanation of an immensely important process."--D. Lamar Jacks, Santa Fe Community College, "Eminently readable, long needed, excellent both as a history of attachment research and a history of social science understanding."--Linda Sperry, Indiana State University, "Robert Karen has a rare capacity for presenting complex psychological ideas in language that is accessible to nonspecialists....Karen's book makes fascinating reading and constitutes a considerable achievement."--Contemporary Psychology, "Robert Karen...is one of our smartest and most accessible guides to the arcane world of psychoanalytic theory and research."--Elle, "Robert Karen has a rare capacity for presenting complex psychological ideas in language that is accessible to nonspecialists....Karen's book makes fascinating reading and constitutes a considerable achievement."--Contemporary Psychology"Robert Karen...is one of our smartest and most accessible guides to the arcane world of psychoanalytic theory and research."--Elle, "Robert Karen has produced a book that presents, in a most reader-friendly style, a major area of study in the field of psychology. It is just the kind of volume that would serve...to not only instruct students about the nature and history of attachment theory and research, but excite themabout the field of psychology, especially child development, as well."--Jay Belsky, Professor of Human Development, Penn State University, "A marvelous book. Dr. Karen has told in an enchanting and captivating way the exciting story of the gifted pioneers who launched a revolution in psychology. Impelling in its implications for the lives of children as well as the struggle of each of us to understand who we are."--Alan Stroufe,Ph.D., William Harris Professor of Child Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, "Robert Karen has a rare capacity for presenting complex psychological ideas in language that is accessible to nonspecialists....Karen's book makes fascinating reading and constitutes a considerable achievement."--Contemporary Psychology "Robert Karen...is one of our smartest and most accessible guides to the arcane world of psychoanalytic theory and research."--Elle
Dewey Decimal306.874/3
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children--seemingly against our will--the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions of emotional life. Karen begins by tracing the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, and Mary Ainsworth, an American developmental psychologist, who together launched a revolution in child psychology. Karen tells about their personal and professional struggles, their groundbreaking discoveries, and the recent flowering of attachment theory research in universities all over the world, making it one of the century's most enduring ideas in developmental psychology. In a world of working parents and makeshift day care, the need to assess the impact of parenting styles and the bond between child and caregiver is more urgent than ever. Karen addresses such issues as: What do children need to feel that the world is a positive place and that they have value? Is day care harmful for children under one year? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult?, and he demonstrates how different approaches to mothering are associated with specific infant behaviors, such as clinginess, avoidance, or secure exploration. He shows how these patterns become ingrained and how they reveal themselves at age two, in the preschool years, in middle childhood, and in adulthood. And, with thought-provoking insights, he gives us a new understanding of how negative patterns and insecure attachment can be changed and resolved throughout a person's life. The infant is in many ways a great mystery to us. Every one of us has been one; many of us have lived with or raised them. Becoming Attached is not just a voyage of discovery in child emotional development and its pertinence to adult life but a voyage of personal discovery as well, for it is impossible to read this book without reflecting on one's own life as a child, a parent, and an intimate partner in love or marriage., The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children--seemingly against our will--the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached , psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions of emotional life. Karen begins by tracing the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, and Mary Ainsworth, an American developmental psychologist, who together launched a revolution in child psychology. Karen tells about their personal and professional struggles, their groundbreaking discoveries, and the recent flowering of attachment theory research in universities all over the world, making it one of the century's most enduring ideas in developmental psychology. In a world of working parents and makeshift day care, the need to assess the impact of parenting styles and the bond between child and caregiver is more urgent than ever. Karen addresses such issues as: What do children need to feel that the world is a positive place and that they have value? Is day care harmful for children under one year? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult?, and he demonstrates how different approaches to mothering are associated with specific infant behaviors, such as clinginess, avoidance, or secure exploration. He shows how these patterns become ingrained and how they reveal themselves at age two, in the preschool years, in middle childhood, and in adulthood. And, with thought-provoking insights, he gives us a new understanding of how negative patterns and insecure attachment can be changed and resolved throughout a person's life. The infant is in many ways a great mystery to us. Every one of us has been one; many of us have lived with or raised them. Becoming Attached is not just a voyage of discovery in child emotional development and its pertinence to adult life but a voyage of personal discovery as well, for it is impossible to read this book without reflecting on one's own life as a child, a parent, and an intimate partner in love or marriage.
LC Classification NumberBF720.M68K37 1998
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Good attachment theory book
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- 14 Feb, 2018
Excellent book
Awesome book with lots of info about the history of attachment theory development. Enjoy this book very much!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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