Table of Contents

R. Bowlby, Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition. Preface. Psychoanalysis and Child Care. An Ethological Approach to Research in Child Development. Childhood Mourning and its Implications for Psychiatry. Effects on Behaviour of Disruption of an Affectional Bond. Separation and Loss within the Family. Self-Reliance and Some Conditions that Promote It. The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds.

Reviews

'These essays, spanning twenty years of Bowlby's speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic ! They make an excellent introduction to his thought.' - British Journal of Psychiatry