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Loading... Attaccamento e perdita. 3. La perdita della madre: Tristezza e depressione (original 1980; edition 2000)by John Bowlby, Carla Sborgi (Translator)
Work InformationLoss: Sadness and Depression by John Bowlby (1980)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In this third and final volume, Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expressions of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. no reviews | add a review
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In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment anf Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary of permenant loss of a mother-figure and the expression of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss. The theories presented differ in many ways from those advanced by Freu d and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality developement and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm. The publication of Attachment and Loss will prove a turning point in t he history of psychoanalysis and psychology generally T. L. S. No library descriptions found. |
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People who have difficulties with what Erik Erikson calls basic trust and Bowlby calls the optimum distance to others often need professional help in their grief work. They find it especially hard to let go of control. In their earliest childhood they experienced fear, emptiness and the feeling of being abandoned, and they know intuitively that they risk experiencing these feelings again if they give up control. As adults they have attached themselves to others in an unhealthy and rigid way.
John Bowlby and Alice Miller both look upon psychoanalysis as their foundation and have both, after a lifetime’s work on the concepts of psychoanalysis, found it necessary to make some revision of them in various areas. What has been most intriguing to us is that, apparently independently, they agree on the great importance for the child’s development of external losses and traumas. It is not the traumatic occurrence itself that leaves its traces, but the way the parents accommodate the child’s emotional reaction to the loss or trauma.