Bowlby's theory of attachment

• Bowlby developed the most influential theory of attachment which drew on both psychoanalytic theory (he was a trained psychoanalyst) and ethological theory.

• According to Bowlby, attachments are to those individuals who are most responsive to the infant’s social releasers.

• All psychologists agree that an infant has multiple attachments.
• The issue is about whether there is one primary attachment which serves a special purpose in emotional development and that it is qualitatively different from all others

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