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7 unusual facts about John Bowlby


Christopher Bollas

Those teachers and figures whom he knew and who helped diversify his thinking were Arnold Modell, John Bowlby, Andre Green, Herbert Rosenfeld, Joseph J. Sandler, J.

Gordon Neufeld

The Neufeld approach (his attachment-based developmental model) is based on the attachment theory formulated by John Bowlby.

John Bowlby

Bowlby studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge,

Bowlby was interested from the beginning of his career in the problem of separation, the wartime work of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham on evacuees, and the work of Rene Spitz with orphans.

Leadership analysis

Important theorists for a psychobiography would be Allport, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Freud, Bronfenbrenner, Carl Jung, Albert Bandura, John Bowlby, among others.

Louis Breger

His work on personality development – as found in his book From Instinct to Identity – is an integration of theory and research from child development, John Bowlby, Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan, Freud, Jean Piaget, primate studies, and research on hunter-gatherer societies.

Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

With Mary Ainsworth’s guidance and input from John Bowlby, she developed the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation.


Bowlby baronets

He is the son of the developmental psychologist John Bowlby, second son of the first Baronet.


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