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Author Vicedo, Marga, author.

Title The nature and nurture of love : from imprinting to attachment in Cold War America / Marga Vicedo.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From imprinting to attachment. Mother love as the cradle of the emotional self. Becoming emotional ; Between overprotection and deprivation: The mother-child dyad takes center stage ; John Bowlby: The mother as the psychic organizer -- The study of instincts. Ethology: Lorenz and Tinbergen search for the biological basis ofbBehavior ; The nature of instincts ; Imprinting ; The WHO meetings: Imprinting from birds to infants -- Bowlby's ethological theory of attachment behavior: The nature and nurture of love for the mother. From natural description to social prescription: Infants' needs and the tragedy of working mothers ; Challenging the studies on maternal deprivation ; Uniting psychoanalysis and ethology: The nature of the child's tie to the mother ; The power of natural love ; Challenging instincts -- Against evolutionary determinism: the role of ontogeny in behavior. Daniel Lehrman: Against Konrad Lorenz's theory of instincts ; Behavior without predetermination: Lehrman on maternal care ; The impossibility of isolating the innate ; Hinde against Drives ; Critique of imprinting ; Lorenz's defense ; Lehrman redux -- Psychoanalysts against biological reductionism. Freud on instincts ; Psychoanalysis and ethology: natural allies? ; Anna Freud ; Max Schur ; Rene Spitz -- Primate love: Harry Harlow's work on mothers and peers. Harry Harlow; In search of the origins of love: Contact or food? ; The machine (or the father) in the nursery ; The machine produces monsters: bring back natural mother love ; The power of peers ; The moral of the story: surprise! ; Naturalizing nurture -- The nature of love: Mary Ainsworth's natural experiments, experimental observations, and the reification of feelings ; Mary Ainsworth: from assistant to defender ; Patterns of behavior: from Uganda to Baltimore via London ; Assumptions and displacements: From relation to correlation to causation ; The biological foundations of attachment -- Reinforcing each other and a normative view of nature. Lorenz appeals to psychoanalysis ; Bowlby appeals to ethology ; Normative nature: from the natural to the social.
Summary "The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists-anything from the fear of romantic commitment to serial killing-stem from their troubled relationships with their mothers during childhood. How did we come to hold these views about the determinant power of mother love over an individual's emotional development? And what does this vision of mother love entail for children and mothers? In The Nature and Nurture of Love, Marga Vicedo examines scientific views about children's emotional needs and mother love from World War II until the 1970s, paying particular attention to John Bowlby's ethological theory of attachment behavior. Vicedo tracks the development of Bowlby's work as well as the interdisciplinary research that he used to support his theory, including Konrad Lorenz's studies of imprinting in geese, Harry Harlow's experiments with monkeys, and Mary Ainsworth's observations of children and mothers in Uganda and the United States. Vicedo's historical analysis reveals that important psychoanalysts and animal researchers opposed the project of turning emotions into biological instincts. Despite those criticisms, she argues that attachment theory was paramount in turning mother love into a biological need. This shift introduced a new justification for the prescriptive role of biology in human affairs and had profound -- and negative -- consequences for mothers and for the valuation of mother love."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Attachment behavior in infants.
Attachment behavior in infants.
Mother and child.
Mother and child.
Love, Maternal.
Love, Maternal.
Attachment behavior.
Attachment behavior.
Imprinting (Psychology)
Imprinting (Psychology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780226020556 022602055X (DLC) 2012043198
ISBN 022602069X (electronic book)
9780226020693 (electronic book)
9780226020556 (alkaline paper)
022602055X (alkaline paper)