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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Dedication
Title Page
Preface
Part I: Security, Anxiety, and Distress
1. Prototypes of Human Sorrow
Responses of young children to separation from mother
Conditions leading to intense responses
Conditions mitigating the intensity of responses
Presence or absence of mother figure: a key variable
2. The Place of Separation and Loss in Psychopathology
Problem and perspective
Separation anxiety and other forms of anxiety
A challenge for theory
3. Behaviour with and without Mother: Humans
Naturalistic observations
Experimental studies
Ontogeny of responses to separation
4. Behaviour with and without Mother: Non-human Primates
Naturalistic observations
Early experimental studies
Further studies by Hinde and Spencer-Booth
Part II: An Ethological Approach to Human Fear
5. Basic Postulates in Theories of Anxiety and Fear
Anxiety allied to fear
Models of motivation and their effects on theory
Puzzling phobia or natural fear
6. Forms of Behaviour Indicative of Fear
An empirical approach
Withdrawal behaviour and attachment behaviour
Feeling afraid and its variants: feeling alarmed and feeling anxious
7. Situations that Arouse Fear in Humans
A difficult field of study
Fear-arousing situations: the first year
Fear-arousing situations: the second and later years
Compound situations
Fear behaviour and the development of attachment
8. Situations that Arouse Fear in Animals
Natural clues to potential danger
Fear behaviour of non-human primates
Compound situations
Fear, attack, and exploration
9. Natural Clues to Danger and Safety
Better safe than sorry
Potential danger of being alone
Potential safety of familiar companions and environment
Maintaining a stable relationship with the familiar environment: a form of homeostasis
10. Natural Clues, Cultural Clues, and the Assessment of Danger
Clues of three kinds
Real danger: difficulties of assessment
‘Imaginary’ dangers
Cultural clues learnt from others
Continuing role of the natural clues
Behaviour in disaster
11. Rationalization, Misattribution, and Projection
Difficulties in identifying situations that arouse fear
Misattribution and the role of projection
The case of Schreber: a re-examination
12. Fear of Separation
Hypotheses regarding its development
Need for two terminologies
Part III: Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Fear: Anxious Attachment
13. Some Variables responsible for Individual Differences
Constitutional variables
Experiences and processes that reduce susceptibility to fear
Experiences amd processes that increase susceptibility to fear
14. Susceptibility to Fear and the Availability of Attachment Figures
Forecasting the availability of an attachment figure
Working models of attachment figures and of self
The role of experience in determining working models
A note on use of the terms ‘mature’ and ‘immature’
15. Anxious Attachment and Some Conditions that Promote it
‘Overdependency’ or anxious attachment
Anxious attachment of children reared without a permanent mother figure
Anxious attachment after a period of separation or of daily substitute care
Anxious attachment following threats of abandonment or suicide
16. ‘Overdependency’ and the Theory of Spoiling
Some contrasting theories
Studies of ‘overdependency’ and its antecedents
17. Anger, Anxiety, and Attachment
Anger: a response to separation
Anger: functional and dysfunctional
Anger, ambivalence, and anxiety
18. Anxious Attachment and the ‘Phobias’ of Childhood
Phobia, pseudophobia, and anxiety state
‘School phobia’ or school refusal
Two classical cases of childhood phobia: a reappraisal
Animal phobias in childhood
19. Anxious Attachment and ‘Agoraphobia’
Symptomatology and theories of ‘agoraphobia’
Pathogenic patterns of family interaction
‘Agoraphobia’, bereavement, and depression
A note on response to treatment
20. Omission, Suppression, and Falsification of Family Context
21. Secure Attachment and the Growth of Self-reliance
Personality development and family experience
Studies of adolescents and young adults
Studies of young children
Self-reliance and reliance on others
22. Pathways for the Growth of Personality
The nature of individual variation: alternative models
Developmental pathways and homeorhesis
One person’s pathway: some determinants
Appendices
Appendix I: Separation Anxiety: Review of Literature
Appendix II: Psychoanalysis and Evolution Theory
Appendix III: Problems of Terminology
References
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
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