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Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (/ ˈ b oʊ l b i /; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bowlby as the 49th most cited psychologist of the ...
His 1981 monograph and other papers comprise the definitive empirical evaluation and update of Bowlby's early work on maternal deprivation. [44] [47] [48] He amassed further evidence, addressed the many different underlying social and psychological mechanisms and showed that Bowlby was only partially right and often for the wrong reasons ...
According to Bowlby, proximity-seeking to the attachment figure in the face of threat is the "set-goal" of the attachment behavioural system. [33] Bowlby's original account of a sensitivity period during which attachments can form of between six months and two to three years has been modified by later researchers. These researchers have shown ...
Bowlby was influenced by the beginnings of the object relations school of psychoanalysis and in particular, Melanie Klein, although he profoundly disagreed with the psychoanalytic belief then prevalent that saw infants' responses as relating to their internal fantasy life rather than to real life events. As Bowlby began to formulate his concept ...
John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, is credited with establishing attachment theory. From about 1930 to the 1950's, Bowlby and others worked on building the foundations to understand that a child is impacted by their caregiving environment. He elegantly integrated those efforts with his ideas and incorporated several other disciplines to ...
Bowlby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Alfred Bowlby (1855–1929), British surgeon and pathologist, son of Thomas William Bowlby
Bowlby was interested in separation distress, and bonding in animals. He noticed that many infant behaviours are organized around the goal of maintaining proximity to the caregiver. [ 4 ] He proposed that human infants like other mammals must have an attachment motivational-behavioural system which enhances chances for survival. [ 2 ]
The John Bowlby in this article died in 1990. There seems to be another John Bowlby, who published a book in 1991. (Charles Darwin: a New Life, Norton, 1991.) This biography is listed in the bibliography of The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright, 1994, p. 428. Perhaps there should be a disambiguation page and an article about him.