Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis

A Bestseller . Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought. . The book every student colleague and even rival theoretician has been waiting for. With characteristic wit philosophical sophistication scholarship humanity incisiveness and creativity Fonagy succinctly describes the links differences and future directions of his twin themes. [His book] is destined to take its place as one of a select list of essential psychology books of the decade.-Jeremy Holmes Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy University of Exeter . Extraordinary--an invaluable resource for developmental psychoanalysis. -Joy D. Osofsky Professor Louisiana State University