Applying John Bowlby's Attachment Theory

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The concept of attachment in the doctrine was introduced by English psychoanalyst John Bowlby (John Bowlby, 1907-1990). Attachment refers to the specific relationship formed between mother and child and lasts throughout life, as a permanent psychological link established between two people (Holmes, 2004). Regarding this, it should be pointed out that Bowlby was not the first one that observed and defined the relationship between mother and child. A decade before him, psychoanalysis as a condition of normal child development sets the continuous and a close relationship with the child 's mother. According to the psychoanalytic concept of the relationship of the child with the mother based on the fact that the mother provides the satisfaction of the …show more content…

Psychoanalysts have this ratio defined as the ratio of emotional dependence. John Bowlby, reviewed nature of the relationship and defines it as attachment. The path of emotional dependence to affective attachment is actually a story of how and why John Bowlby, a psychoanalyst, became the founder of the theory attachment. Confidence that the circumstances in which we grow, we live and work, significantly associated with the way we think and create, according to the emergence of attachment theory is located in the context of biographical data about its founder. Edward John Mostyn Bowlby was born on February 26, 1907 in London to an upper-middle-class family. Bowlby’s father, Sir Anthony Alfred, was a baronet and a member of the medical staff to the king. He was raised in a family of six children, and his primary caregiver was a nanny. Believing that too much parental affection and attention would spoil a child, his parents spent only a small amount of time with him each day. Bowlby had very little interaction with his mother. As a result, he developed a deep attachment to his nanny; perhaps this led to his later interest in attachment formation. The nanny left the family when Bowlby was