The Nature and Nurture of Love : From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America


Marga. Vicedo
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (332 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction; 1. From Imprinting to Attachment; Chapter 1. Mother Love as the Cradle of the Emotional Self; Chapter 2. The Study of Instincts; Chapter 3. Bowlby's Ethological Theory of Attachment Behavior: The Nature and Nurture of Love for the Mother; 2. Challenging Instincts; Chapter 4. Against Evolutionary Determinism: The Role of Ontogeny in Behavior; Chapter 5. Psychoanalysts against Biological Reductionism; Chapter 6. Primate Love: Harry Harlow's Work on Mothers and Peers; 3. Naturalizing Nurture. - Chapter 7. The Nature of Love: Mary Ainsworth's Observational and Experimental WorkChapter 8. Reinforcing Each Other and a Normative View of Nature; Conclusion: Infants, Instincts, and Mothers; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists-anything from the fear of romantic commitment to serial killing-stem from their troubled relationships with their mothers during childhood. How did we come to hold these views about the determinant power of mother love over an individual's emotional development? And what does this vision of mother love entail for children and mothers? In The Nature
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