Becoming Attached - First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

This expanded and fully updated edition of Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand the nature of the child and the components of good-enough care. Psychologist and journalist Robert Karen chronicles the origin and history of a groundbreaking idea - attachment theory - and its resounding impact on the fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

About the author

Robert Karen is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Postgraduate Training Program in Group Psychotherapy, Adelphi University.

Product details

• Authors: Karen, Robert Karen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2024
• EAN: 9780199398799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939879-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Clinical psychology, Family & relationships, Child & developmental psychology, Advice on parenting, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues