Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction The idea of attachment Bowlby’s attachment theory This book The wider Bowlby Archive Conclusion References PART 1: Mature theoretical writings 1. Defences that follow loss: Causation and function Introduction Concepts of defence Causation and function Defensive processes evoked by loss Functions and consequences Review of literature References Appendix: Selective exclusion and levels of motivation 2. Loss, detachment and defence Introduction Detachment: three hypotheses Loss, a cause of defence: literature Six characteristics of depression Pathological mourning and pathological anxiety Conclusion References Appendix: Letter from Mary Ainsworth 3. The place of defensive exclusion in depressive disorders Cognitive disconnection of response from eliciting event Sachar’s study of brief psychotherapy Comment References 4. Darwin: Psychiatry and developmental psychology Darwin’s study of the emotions Recent research on the emotions Implications for psychiatry and psychoanalysis References PART 2: Early writings on guilt, anxiety, and identification 5. Psychological problems of evacuation Adolescents 11–16 years Children of 6 to 10 years Infants and toddlers The parents of evacuated children Recommendations Conclusion Bed-wetting Chronic cases The uprooted small child 6. Freud and the super-ego Super-ego References 7. Guilt and family contracts “External” guilt “Internal” guilt Contracts Freud’s ambivalence theory of guilt – anxiety Guilt, Anxiety and Fear References PART 3: Seminars at Stanford and the Tavistock 8. A psycho-analytic approach to conflict and its regulation: A seminar delivered to members of the Stanford Conflict Seminar, January, 1958 References 9. A seminar delivered to members of the Stanford Conflict Seminar, February, 1958 References 10. Psychological processes evoked by a major psycho-social transition References Appendix: Transitions by Colin Murray Parkes PART 4: Retrospective reflections 11. Interview with Alice Smuts Interview – June 6, 1977 Interview – July 23, 1977 References 12. The role of the psychotherapist’s personal resources in the treatment situation References Index