Attachment theory and The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2007: a short history

摘要

This year's Bowlby Memorial Conference marks the centenary of John Bowlby's birth in 1907. One of the outstanding psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, as a theory builder and reformer his societal impact and influence on social policy have been greater than that of any other. He has been described by Diamond and Blatt (1999, p. 669) as "the Dickens of psychoanalytic theory": he illuminated the human experiences of attachment and loss as vividly as Dickens represented those of poverty and deprivation.