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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; About the author; Acknowledgement; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1. An encounter with John Bowlby; The supra-vision of supervision; Real Madrid: the ups and downs of life; Uncertainty at the Tavistock Clinic; Beginnings and endings; Note; 2. An outline of John Bowlby's pilgrimage; The war years and beyond; The training of the young Bowlby; Personal and family developments; Some free associations; 3. John Bowlby at war and the psychoanalytic controversial discussions |
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Concerns for children and soldiersWas Bowlby a fighter or a peace-maker?; A 'war' within British psychoanalysis; Further psychoanalytic developments; A breakthrough and a conflict with the Prime Minister; 4. John Bowlby and the Tavistock Clinic; Historical and political context to Bowlby's professional growth; Bowlby's Department for Children and Parents; Research takes off; The child psychotherapy training; Clinical orientations; Wider institutional impact; 5. Genesis of Attachment Theory; Conceptions of attachment; The kindness of strangers; And the trouble began & |
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6. Cross-fertilization in the development of Attachment TheoryFurther controversies; The skill, the will and the group; Attachment and cybernetics; Further group work; The trilogy on Attachment and Loss; 7. The group as an adaptive attachment; Peer relationships as a desperate survival strategy; Ordinary peer development; Child group psychotherapy; Institutional change; Moving on up; 8. Authority and attachment in adolescence; Exploration or experimentation?; Is there a remedy for adolescence?; Adolescent ages and stages; Early adolescence; Middle adolescence; Late adolescence |
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An innovative Adolescent UnitThe authority of the adolescent; The adolescent peer group; The drugs question; The in-patient Unit as a secure enough base for exploration; 9. Attachment on the edge; Can we make sense of life and death?; The clash; Further context and trauma; Bowlby on the Unconscious; Note; 10. Attachment as recovery from child sexual abuse; From denial to therapeutic evidence; 11. Professional sexual abuse: A perversion of attachment?; The source of the Nile; Oedipus revisited; 12. The wit and wisdom of John Bowlby: Personal reflections; Appendix; References; Author Index |
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Subject Index |
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Print version record |
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Psychologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Psychologists
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134813001 |
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1134813007 |
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