Developmental Psychology Arena

Infant Development

Recent Advances

• By J. Gavin Bremner, George Butterworth and Alan Slater.

Published March 1998

This edited volume provides an authoritative account of recent research into infant development, containing thirteen chapters written by leading British and North American infancy researchers. Editorial sections are used to provide an integrated whole and to point the reader to similarities and…
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Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition

• By Elizabeth Meins.

Published June 1997

Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of…
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The Politics of Uncertainty

Attachment in Private and Public Life

• By Peter Marris.

Published June 1996

In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of…
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Healing Pain

Attachment, Loss, and Grief Therapy

• By Marianne Davidsen-Nielsen, and Nini Leick.
• Translated by David Stoner.

Published January 1991

Feelings of loss, resulting in grief, are triggered by many situations besides the death of a loved one. Healing Pain investigates why the process of grief can be such a dramatic turning-point, and why people who undergo it are never the same as they were before. A bestseller in Scandinavia, it…
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Infant Development

• Edited by Gavin Bremner, and Alan Slater.

Published December 1989

The book provides detailed up to date and authoritative accounts of major areas of infant development. The 11 chapters are subdivided into three sections: Perceptual Development (4 chapters); Cognitive Development (3 chapters); Social Interaction, Early Language and Emotion (4 chapters). While…
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A Secure Base

Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory

• By John Bowlby.

Published May 1988

In this collection of lectures Dr Bowlby describes recent findings, and gives an outline of the main features of attachment theory, now widely recognised as a most productive conceptual framework within which to organise the evidence. In the final lecture he shows how this knowledge, when applied…
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