The life and works of John Bowlby

Date Submitted: 06/13/2003 03:13:47
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (699 words)
The life and works of John Bowlby 1907 - 19907 John Bowlby was born in 1907. After his graduation he pursued his new found interest through volunteering at two progressive schools, the second a small analytically- oriented residential institution that served about 24 maladjusted children, aged 4 - 18 years. Two children there had an enormous impact on him. One was a very isolated, remote and affectionless teenager with no experience of a stable mother figure. This child had been expelled …
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…known as ''post-Bowlbyian'' or ''Neo-Bowlbyian'' spread in the world. This was started as a result of the works of American Scholars who had shown to share Bowlbys revolutionary methodology and now blatantly corrupt it. American scholars are currently almost exclusively working on questionnaires and interviews with adults; they have given up the direct observation of children. As things stand right now, psychology as enhanced by Bowlby has backtracked to Freudian times, even to pre-Freuden times.
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