John Bowlby (* 1907; "† 1990) were a British physician, Psychoanalytiker and a pioneer of the connection research (see connection theory).

Bowlby studied first medicine and was decided to be able to be trained for at that time the again developing field child psychiatry. Already during its study time it had begun with psychoanalytischen training. Already early it argued with the theories of Melanie small.

After that 2. It received relatively soon the order to world war to develop a department for Kinderpsychotherapie in the Tavistock Clinic. Bowlby was convinced already at that time that material earlychildlike experiences in the relationship with parents can determine the development of a child fundamentally and that not only the and its solution or the monopoly of the on the emotional development of a child responsible are.

In the year 1951 the study provided on behalf the WHO von John Bowlby was published over the connection between care and mental health. It formed a contribution for the program of the UN for the well-being of homeless children.

it submitted nature OF the child's tie tons to 1958 in its writing His more mother for the first time its considerations to the fact that there is a system biologically put on of the connection, which is responsible for the development of the emotional relationship between nut/mother and child. Its considerations were affected, special of its acquaintance with the ethologischen research by the work of Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. Also in the work of Robert Hinde on Rhesusaffen he found his own observations confirmed.

With its 1969 book appeared "„connection - an analysis of the nut/mother child relationship "“justified Bowlby the connection theory. Thus the research beside the preventing turned also to the promoting factors in the nut/mother child relationship.

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