Attachment and loss : v. 1. Attachment / John Bowlby.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-399) and indexes.

v. 1. Attachment.
Part 1 - The task. 1 Point of view. 2 Observations to be explained. Part 2 - Instinctive behaviour. 3 Instinctive behaviour: an alternative model. 4 Man's environment of evolutionary adaptedness. 5 Behavioural systems mediating instinctive behaviour. 6 Causes of instinctive behaviour. 7 Appraising and selecting: feeling and emotion. 8 Function of instinctive behaviour. 9 Changes in behaviour during the life-cycle. 10 Ontogeny of instinctive behaviour. Part 3 - Attachment behaviour. 11 The child's tie to his mother: attachment behaviour. 12 Nature and function of attachment behaviour. 13 A control systems approach to attachment behaviour. Part 4 - Ontogeny of human attachment. 14 Beginnings of attachment behaviour. 15 Focusing on a figure. 16 Patterns of attachment and contributing conditions. 17 Developments in the organisation of attachment behaviour. Part 5 - Old controversies and new findings. 18 Stability and change in patterns of attachment. 19 Objections, misconceptions and clarifications

'This first volume of [the] series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior--how it develops, how it is maintained, what functions it fulfills....The second edition, with two wholly new chapters and substantial revisions, incorporates these [major developments in both theoretical discussion and empirical research on attachment] and assesses their importance to attachment theory.'

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