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Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

Karen, Robert

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Book Information
Edition:	1st
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN:	0-19-511501-5 (0195115015)
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-511501-7 (9780195115017)
New Edition:	0-19-939879-8
Binding:	Softcover
Copyright:	1998
Publish Date:	09/95
Weight:	1.58 Lbs.
Pages:	512
Carton Quantity:	14
Subject Class:	PSY (Psychiatry and Psychology)
Remarks:	A New Edition of this Title is Available
Return Policy:	Returns accepted up to 90 days provided no other recalls or return restrictions apply.

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Abstract:

The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children--seemingly against our will--the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insight into some of the most fundamental and fascinating questions of emotional life. ... The infant is in many ways a great mystery to us. Every one of us has been one; many of us have lived with or raised them. Becoming Attached is not just a voyage of discovery in child emotional development and its pertinence to adult life but a voyage of personal discovery as well, for it is impossible to read this book without reflecting on one's own life as a child, a parent, and an intimate partner in love or marriage.

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