Attachment and loss. Volume 2. Separation : anger and anxiety /
John Bowlby.
- London : Pimlico, 1998.
- 503 p. ; 22 cm.
- Pimlico ; 282 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Security, anxiety, and distress -- Ch. 1. Prototypes of human sorrow -- Ch. 2. The place of separation and loss in psychopathology -- Ch. 3. Behaviour with and without mother: Human -- Ch. 4. Behaviour with and without mother: Non-human -- Pt. 2. An ethological approach to human fear -- Ch. 5. Basic postulates in theories of anxiety and fear -- Ch. 6. Forms of behaviour indicative of fear -- Ch. 7. Situations that arouse fear in humans -- Ch. 8. Situations that arouse fear in animals -- Ch. 9. Natural clues to danger and safety -- Ch. 10. Natural clues, cultural clues, and the assessment -- Ch. 11. Rationalization, misattribution, and projection -- Ch. 12. Fear of separation -- Pt. 3. Individual differences in susceptibility to fear: anxious attachment -- Ch. 13. Some variables responsible for individual differences -- Ch. 14. Susceptibility to fear and the availability of attachment figures -- Ch. 15. Anxious attachment and some conditions that promote it -- Ch. 16. 'Overdependency' and the theory of spoiling -- Ch. 17. Anger, anxiety, and attachment -- Ch. 18. Anxious attachment and the 'phobias' of childhood -- Ch. 19. Anxious attachment and 'agoraphobia' -- Ch. 20. Omission, suppression, and falsification of family context -- Ch. 21. Secure attachment and the growth of self-reliance -- Ch. 22. Pathways for the growth of personality.
Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he considers separation and the anxiety that accompanies it: the fear of imminent or anticipated separation, the fear induced by parental threats of separation, and the inversion of the parent-child relationship. Dr Bowlby re-examines the situations that cause us to feel fear and compares them with evidence from animals. He concludes that fear is initially aroused by certain elemental situations - sudden movement, darkness or separation - which, although intrinsically harmless, are indicative of an increased risk of danger.
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