Attachment and Bonding
A New Synthesis
Published on 18. November 2005
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Hardback
512 pages
978-0-262-03348-0 (ISBN)
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Attachment and bonding are evolved processes; the mechanisms that permit the
development of selective social bonds are assumed to be very ancient, based on neural circuitry
rooted deep in mammalian evolution, but the nature and timing of these processes and their ultimate
and proximate causes are only beginning to be understood. In this Dahlem Workshop Report, scientists
from different disciplines -- including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral biology
-- come together to explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from diverse perspectives. In
their studies they seek to understand the causes or the consequences of attachment and bonding in
general and their different qualities in individual development in particular. They address such
questions as biobehavioral processes in attachment and bonding; early social attachment and its
influences on later patterns of behavior; bonding later in life; and adaptive and maladaptive (or
pathological) outcomes. The studies confirm that social bonds have consequences for virtually all
aspects of behavior and may be protective in the face of both physical and emotional
challenges.
development of selective social bonds are assumed to be very ancient, based on neural circuitry
rooted deep in mammalian evolution, but the nature and timing of these processes and their ultimate
and proximate causes are only beginning to be understood. In this Dahlem Workshop Report, scientists
from different disciplines -- including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral biology
-- come together to explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from diverse perspectives. In
their studies they seek to understand the causes or the consequences of attachment and bonding in
general and their different qualities in individual development in particular. They address such
questions as biobehavioral processes in attachment and bonding; early social attachment and its
influences on later patterns of behavior; bonding later in life; and adaptive and maladaptive (or
pathological) outcomes. The studies confirm that social bonds have consequences for virtually all
aspects of behavior and may be protective in the face of both physical and emotional
challenges.
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English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Illustrations
42 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
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978-0-262-03348-0 (9780262033480)
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Persons
Sarah B. Hrdy is the author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection.
Antonio Negri is a philosopher and essay writer. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he taught political sciences for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy including Marx beyond Marx (1979), The Savage Anomaly (1983), Insurgencies (1997); and in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004).
Stephen W. Porges is Professor of Psychiatry, and Codirector of the Brain Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
K. E. Grossmann is Professor Emeritus, University of Regensberg.
Norbert Sachser is Professor of Zoology and Director of the Behavioral Biology Division, University of Münster.
Lieselotte Ahnert is Visiting Professor of Developmental Psychology and Visiting Professor at the Free University, Berlin
Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University.
Antonio Negri is a philosopher and essay writer. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he taught political sciences for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy including Marx beyond Marx (1979), The Savage Anomaly (1983), Insurgencies (1997); and in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004).
Stephen W. Porges is Professor of Psychiatry, and Codirector of the Brain Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
K. E. Grossmann is Professor Emeritus, University of Regensberg.
Norbert Sachser is Professor of Zoology and Director of the Behavioral Biology Division, University of Münster.
Lieselotte Ahnert is Visiting Professor of Developmental Psychology and Visiting Professor at the Free University, Berlin
Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences, Cambridge University.