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Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love
Karen, Robert PhD
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Edition:
2nd
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
0-19-939879-8 (0199398798)
ISBN-13:
978-0-19-939879-9 (9780199398799)
Old Edition:
0-19-511501-5
Binding:
Softcover
Copyright:
2023
Publish Date:
01/24
Weight:
2.56 Lbs.
Pages:
824
Subject Class:
PSY (Psychiatry and Psychology)
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Class Specifications
Discipline:
Psychology
Subject Definition:
Mother and Infant; Attachment Behavior (LCSH)
NLM Class:
BF 720
LC Class:
BF720
Abstract:
Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand what children need and what constitutes good parenting. In this expanded and fully updated new edition, psychotherapist and journalist Robert Karen chronicles the origin of a groundbreaking idea - attachment theory -and its resounding impact on the fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. Karen charts the historic course of attachment theory as it gained notoriety and support-and not a little controversy. Do "securely attached" children fare better as adults than "insecurely attached" ones? What do children truly need to thrive? Can babies handle prolonged separations? Presenting the origin story of an important idea in child development, this new edition also reveals how attachment research has exploded worldwide in the past several years as evidence for the benefits of secure attachment continue to grow. Karen explores the cutting-edge science examining the relationship between infants and their caregivers - such as the hidden world of synchronized play, fMRI studies that reveal neural patterns of parental and receptive love, and the link between attachment and genetics, wherein early experience changes the expression of genes. Karen also tells a dramatic story of scientists at work and at war, what happens when a theory such as attachment becomes complicated by political and economic pressures, and how its entanglement with gender roles and equity in the workforce continue to overshadow research to this day. Karen shares anecdotes drawn from his own practice to illuminate the challenges many adults face in overcoming insecurities that may originate in infancy and childhood, and how resulting harmful relationship patterns may be quashed.
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