Download or read book Becoming Attached written by Robert Karen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded and fully updated edition of Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand the nature of the child and the components of good-enough care. Psychologist and journalist Robert Karen chronicles the origin and history of a groundbreaking idea - attachment theory - and its resounding impact on the fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.