The Organization of Attachment Relationships
Subtitle: Maturation, Culture, and Context
Contributors: Patricia McKinsey Crittenden (Editor); Angelika Hartl Claussen (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780521580021
Subjects: Anthropology; Child & developmental psychology; Psychology; Child Psychology; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Developmental - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Attachment behavior in childre; Attachment behavior; Attachment behavior in children
First sentence: Bowlby defined attachment as the "disposition of the child to seek proximity to and contact with a specific figure and to do so in certain situations, notably when he is frightened, tired or ill" (Bowlby, 1982, p. 371).