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A Secure Base

A secure base helps children explore while knowing support is available. Bowlby traces attachment through family relationships, emotional communication, and therapy's attempt to revise lasting expectations.

8 parts, about 19 minutes to read.

At a glance

Author
Bowlby, John
Parts
8 parts
Reading time
about 19 minutes
The whole book
Also to read in full

What the summary covers

  1. Caring for children: a secure base2 min
  2. How attachment theory arose3 min
  3. The clinician's art and the researcher's science2 min
  4. A natural science of mental life2 min
  5. Violence within attachment relationships3 min
  6. What a child is pressed not to know or feel3 min
  7. Attachment and personality development2 min
  8. Attachment in the therapeutic relationship2 min

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