Article ID: CBB078112505

A Tale of Four Countries: How Bowlby Used His Trip Through Europe to Write the WHO Report and Spread His Ideas (2020)

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Attachment theory, developed by child psychiatrist John Bowlby, is considered a major theory in developmental psychology. Attachment theory can be seen as resulting from Bowlby's personal experiences, his psychoanalytic education, his subsequent study of ethology, and societal developments during the 1930s and 1940s. One of those developments was the outbreak of World War II and its effects on children's psychological wellbeing. In 1950, Bowlby was appointed WHO consultant to study the needs of children who were orphaned or separated from their families for other reasons and needed care in foster homes or institutions. The resulting report is generally considered a landmark publication in psychology, although it subsequently met with methodological criticism. In this paper, by reconstructing Bowlby's visit to several European countries, on the basis of notebooks and letters, the authors shed light on the background of this report and the way Bowlby used or neglected the findings he gathered.

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Authors & Contributors
van der Horst, Frank C. P.
Veer, René van der
van Rosmalen, Lenny
Vicedo, Marga
Benzaquén, Adriana Silvia
Dijken, Suzan van
Journals
History of Psychiatry
History of Psychology
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Cambridge University Press
Continuum
Oxford University Press
Wiley-Blackwell
Northwestern University
Concepts
Developmental psychology; pediatrics and psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychiatry
Psychology
Mothers and children
Children
People
Bowlby, John
Harlow, Harry Frederick
Ainsworth, Mary Dinsmore Salter
Bettelheim, Bruno
Gesell, Arnold Lucius
Klein, Melanie
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Europe
India
Sweden
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
American Psychiatric Association
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
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