John Bowlby Book order

Combining ancient wisdom and spirituality with modern psychology, shaman and therapist Jo Bowlby presents a simple roadmap to wisdom and wellbeing.

The book features an unpublished seminar conducted by the author in Milan in 1985, providing unique insights into the subject matter discussed. A foreword by Kate White from the Bowlby Centre adds context, while the introduction by editor Marco Bacciagaluppi includes excerpts from previously unseen correspondence between them, enriching the reader's understanding of the author's ideas and the seminar's significance.

As author himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Controversial yet powerfully influential to this day, this classic collection of his lectures offers important guidelines for child rearing based on the crucial role of early relationships.

Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby’s thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues Bowlby's work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and 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.

The first book in a psychology trilogy, this study examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable behaviour pattern which is confirmed by discoveries in the biological sciences.