Waubonsee Community College

Becoming attached, first relationships and how they shape our capacity to love, Robert Karen

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-486) and index

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Becoming attached

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Robert Karen

first relationships and how they shape our capacity to love

"In Becoming Attached, Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental issues of emotional life. He explores such questions as: What do children need to feel that the world is a positive place and that they have value? What are the risks of day care for children under one year of age, and what can parents do to manage those risks? What experiences in infancy will enable a person to develop healthy relationships as an adult?"--Page 4 of cover

Introduction: how do we become who we are? -- Mother-love: worst-case scenarios -- Enter Bowlby: the search for a theory of relatedness -- Bowlby and Klein: fantasy vs. reality -- Psychopaths in the making: forty-four juvenile thieves -- Call to arms: the World Health report -- First battlefield: "a two-year-old goes to hospital" -- Of goslings and babies: the birth of attachment theory -- "What's the use to psychoanalyze a goose?" : turmoil, hostility, and debate -- Monkey love: warm, secure, continuous -- Ainsworth in Uganda -- The strange situation -- Second front: Ainsworth's American revolution -- The Minnesota studies: parenting style and personality development -- The mother, the father, and the outside world: attachment quality and childhood relationships -- Structures of the mind: building a model of human connection -- The black box reopened: Mary Main's Berkeley studies -- They are leaning out for love: the strategies and defenses of anxiously attached children, and the possibilities for change -- Ugly needs, ugly me: anxious attachment and shame -- A new generation of critics: the findings contested -- Born that way? Stella Chess and the difficult child -- Renaissance of biological determinism: the temperament debate -- A rage in the nursery: the infant day-care wars -- Astonishing attunements: the unseen emotional life of babies -- The residue of our parents: passing on insecure attachment -- Attachment in adulthood: the secure base vs. the desperate child within -- Repetition and change: working through insecure attachment -- Avoidant society: cultural roots of anxious attachment -- Looking back: Bowlby and Ainsworth