Loss: Sadness and Depression
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Loss: Sadness and Depression   -     By: John Bowlby

Loss: Sadness and Depression

Basic Books / 1982 / Paperback

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Title: Loss: Sadness and Depression
By: John Bowlby
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 496
Vendor: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1982
Dimensions: 8.0 X 5.34 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0465042384
ISBN-13: 9780465042388
Series: Attachment and Loss
Stock No: WW042388

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The classic work of psychology that transformed our understanding of how children mourn the loss of a parent
 
"[Bowlby's] contributions have given psychoanalysis a shot in the arm." ―Sunday Times


Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person’s life revolves. Psychiatrist John Bowlby pioneered attachment theory to explain how our experience of attachment in infancy and childhood condition our enjoyment of life in maturity. Loss builds upon his previous analysis of the child-parent relationship by exploring how children respond to the temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure. Blending psychoanalytic theory with empirical observation, he offers rare insight into the dynamics of mourning in very young children, the subsequent experience of depression, and the processes of accommodation and healing.
 
Gracefully upending the Freudian understanding of loss, personality development and psychopathology, Loss is a fitting conclusion to Bowlby’s groundbreaking Attachment and Loss trilogy.

Author Bio

John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a British psychiatrist and longtime director of child psychology at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Celebrated as "one of the most fertile, incisive thinkers about children of our century" (New York Times), his work pioneered attachment theory. He was the author of A Secure Base as well as the highly influential Attachment and Loss trilogy, whose Attachment, Separation, and Loss transformed psychoanalysis, childcare, and the study of attachment behavior.

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