Course Overview: (Preliminary outline subject to modification)--
Reading: Becoming Attached, Robert Karen, PhD. Oxford University Press, 1998. Atthment Theory and Psychoanalysis, Peter Fonagy, Other Press, New York, 2001. Materials on Reacitve Attachment Disorder and on Neurophysiology will be in article form.
Written Assignments: After each session, please write a 1 page response to "What struck you about this reading." Please bring your paper to share at the beginning of class. jssmith@me.com.
Session 1, Overview: Slide talk with videos of Bowlby, Ainsworth and Harlow as well as the main points of the course.