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Bowlby Adult Attachment Theory

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When mentioning the Adult Attachment Theory, it provides the extensive work of Bowlby, 1997 for a clear understanding on the development of bonds with others. Likewise, the author delivers important insides into the early experience of mother/child relationships, but also in reference to adult/adult similarities. Waters et al, 2002 states how Bowlby replaced Freud´s Drive Reduction Model of psychodynamics structures about motivation, with the one that emphasizes roles relationships introducing a concept of mental model into his work, actually, Bowlby rejecting categorically his Drive Reduction Theory. Waters et al, 2002 also mention the statement that initially Bowlby documented and criticized some vulnerabilities in the originals Freud´s
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