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The making & breaking of affectional bonds

by John Bowlby

This selection of key lectures by John Bowlby includes the long and important one that gives the volume its title. Informed by a wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well know humanity and lucidity, taken together, the lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work. In addition to the basic principles with which they are mainly concerned, they also contain much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?