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Attachment: Session 2
Jeffery Smith, MD
jssmith@me.com
Reading: Becoming Attached, Robert Karen, Section 1 to page 125.
Written Assignment: After each session, please write a 1 page reacton: "What struck you about this reading." Bring your paper to share at the beginning of class.
A Few Key Points--
Bowlby in a historical context
Bowlby's personal experience with boarding school and progressive education
Conflict with Freudians: Drive theory
Conflict with Kline: The importance of real events in early life.
How good orphanages and hospitals treated children
Bowlby's challenge
Spitz and Robertson's films
The 1951 WHO report
Bowlby's need for data
How the need for scientific validity narrowed Bowlby's focus to separations.
Ethology, Lorentz and Harlow
Attachment: The co-development of psychology and the brain.