Table of Contents

About the Author.

Foreword (Professor Jerome Kagan).

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1 Biographical Notes and Early Career.

2 Loneliness in Infancy: The WHO Report and Issues of Separation.

3 Working with James Robertson: The Importance of Observation.

4 Bowlby’s Acquaintance with Ethology: The Work of Lorenz, Tinbergen, and Hinde.

5 From Theoretical Claims to Empirical Evidence: Harry Harlow and the Nature of Love.

6 Mary Ainsworth's Role in the Study of Attachment.

Conclusions.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

About the Author

Frank C. P. van der Horst is a psychologist at De Waag Rotterdam, an outpatient clinic for forensic psychiatry, and a researcher at the Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University. His research aims at describing the history of ideas in the behavioural sciences, such as the ideas and work of John Bowlby, René Spitz, William Goldfarb, Jean Piaget, and Harry Harlow.

Reviews

van der Horst s treatment of thecross-fertilization of ideas as well as the personal andprofessional relationships that went into their making iscommendable. Given our own contemporary interest in the promisesand pitfalls of interdisciplinarity, it emphasizes the many gainsthat can emerge out of an active commitment to talk acrossdisciplines. With its focus on a series of important attempts tomerge the goals of the psychological and the natural sciences, vander Horst s book should equally interest historians ofethology, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, and the humansciences more broadly. Despite the complex nature of the story thatit tells, this book is highly accessible and well suited tononspecialists and specialists alike." (Journal of the Historyof the Behavioral Sciences, 2 October 2013) Overall, this book, although somewhat cost-prohibitive,does a very good job of helping to contextualize the development ofattachment theory and would be useful reading for both cliniciansand researchers at all levels of understanding regarding attachmenttheory. I agree with Jerome Kagan that this is a coherent, gracefully written, even-handed, and richlydetailed description. (Journal of Marital andFamily Therapy, 1 October 2012) Nonetheless, for those interested in the history ofpsychology, and attachment theory in particular, I recommend JohnBowlby: From Psychoanalysis to Ethology for what it tells us aboutthe origins of attachment and John Bowlby s courageousforging of attachment theory. (PsycCRITIQUES, 2May 2012) "... (this book)does a very good job of helping to contextualizethe development of attachment theory and would be useful readingfor both clinicians and researchers at all levels of understandingregarding attachment theory. I agree with Jerome Kagan that this isa "coherent, gracefully written, even-handed, and richly detaileddescription"." (Journal Marital and Family Therapy, October2011)