Becoming attached : first relationships and how they shape our capacity to love / Robert Karen.

Originally published: Warner Books, 1994. 17.25

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-486) and index.

Introduction: how do we become who we are? -- Mother-love: worst-case scenarios -- Enter Bowlby: the search for a theory of relatedness -- Bowlby and Klein: fantasy vs. reality -- Psychopaths in the making: forty-four juvenile thieves -- Call to arms: the World Health report -- First battlefield: "a two-year-old goes to hospital" -- Of goslings and babies: the birth of attachment theory -- "What's the use to psychoanalyze a goose?" : turmoil, hostility, and debate -- Monkey love: warm, secure, continuous -- Ainsworth in Uganda -- The strange situation -- Second front: Ainsworth's American revolution -- The Minnesota studies: parenting style and personality development -- The mother, the father, and the outside world: attachment quality and childhood relationships -- Structures of the mind: building a model of human connection -- The black box reopened: Mary Main's Berkeley studies -- They are leaning out for love: the strategies and defenses of anxiously attached children, and the possibilities for change -- Ugly needs, ugly me: anxious attachment and shame -- A new generation of critics: the findings contested -- Born that way? Stella Chess and the difficult child -- Renaissance of biological determinism: the temperament debate -- A rage in the nursery: the infant day-care wars -- Astonishing attunements: the unseen emotional life of babies -- The residue of our parents: passing on insecure attachment -- Attachment in adulthood: the secure base vs. the desperate child within -- Repetition and change: working through insecure attachment -- Avoidant society: cultural roots of anxious attachment -- Looking back: Bowlby and Ainsworth.