The nature and nurture of love : from imprinting to attachment in Cold War America /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From imprinting to attachment. Mother love as the cradle of the emotional self. Becoming emotional ; Between overprotection and deprivation: The mother-child dyad takes center stage ; John Bowlby: The mother as the psychic organizer
- The study of instincts. Ethology: Lorenz and Tinbergen search for the biological basis ofbBehavior ; The nature of instincts ; Imprinting ; The WHO meetings: Imprinting from birds to infants
- Bowlby's ethological theory of attachment behavior: The nature and nurture of love for the mother. From natural description to social prescription: Infants' needs and the tragedy of working mothers ; Challenging the studies on maternal deprivation ; Uniting psychoanalysis and ethology: The nature of the child's tie to the mother ; The power of natural love ; Challenging instincts
- Against evolutionary determinism: the role of ontogeny in behavior. Daniel Lehrman: Against Konrad Lorenz's theory of instincts ; Behavior without predetermination: Lehrman on maternal care ; The impossibility of isolating the innate ; Hinde against Drives ; Critique of imprinting ; Lorenz's defense ; Lehrman redux
- Psychoanalysts against biological reductionism. Freud on instincts ; Psychoanalysis and ethology: natural allies? ; Anna Freud ; Max Schur ; Rene Spitz
- Primate love: Harry Harlow's work on mothers and peers. Harry Harlow; In search of the origins of love: Contact or food? ; The machine (or the father) in the nursery ; The machine produces monsters: bring back natural mother love ; The power of peers ; The moral of the story: surprise! ; Naturalizing nurture
- The nature of love: Mary Ainsworth's natural experiments, experimental observations, and the reification of feelings ; Mary Ainsworth: from assistant to defender ; Patterns of behavior: from Uganda to Baltimore via London ; Assumptions and displacements: From relation to correlation to causation ; The biological foundations of attachment
- Reinforcing each other and a normative view of nature. Lorenz appeals to psychoanalysis ; Bowlby appeals to ethology ; Normative nature: from the natural to the social.