Child Psychiatrists - John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, Lauretta Bender, Jaume Canellas Galindo, Michael Rutter, Robin Skynner, Leo Kanner (Paperback)

Chapters: John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, Lauretta Bender, Jaume Canellas Galindo, Michael Rutter, Robin Skynner, Leo Kanner, Bruce D. Perry, Manuel Isaias Lopez, Dane Prugh, James Anthony, Sula Wolff, Arlette Lefebvre, Richard C. Harrington. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Bowlby (26 February 19072 September 1990) was a British psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. Bowlby was born in London to an upper-middle-class family. He was the fourth of six children and was brought up by a nanny in the British fashion of his class at that time. His father, Sir Anthony Bowlby, first Baronet, was surgeon to the King's Household, with a tragic history: at age five, Sir Anthony's own father (John's grandfather) was killed while serving as a war correspondent in the Opium Wars. Normally, Bowlby saw his mother only one hour a day after teatime, though during the summer she was more available. Like many other mothers of her social class, she considered that parental attention and affection would lead to dangerous spoiling of the children. Bowlby was lucky in that the nanny in his family was present throughout his childhood. At the age of seven, he was sent off to boarding school, as was common for boys of his social status. In his work Separation: Anxiety and Anger, he revealed that he regarded it as a terrible time for him. He later said, "I wouldn't send a dog away to boarding school at age seven." Because of such experiences as a child, he displayed a sensitivity to childrens suffering throughout his life. However, with his characteristic attentiveness to the effects of age differences, Bowlby did consider boarding schools appropriate for children ag...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=106589