Attachment (Attachment and Loss, Volume 1), 2nd edition
This entry records a correction rather than a source. The first volume of Bowlby's Attachment and Loss, published in 1969 and revised in 1982, is the founding statement of attachment theory. A definition of attachment is very widely attributed to page six of that volume, and when this publication went to check it, the definition was not there: page six concerns the legitimacy of borrowing concepts from other fields. The entry exists so that the misattribution is recorded rather than repeated, and so that anyone citing the famous line knows it needs a different reference. The book itself remains a book, and belongs in the book library rather than here.
This entry records a correction rather than a source. The first volume of Bowlby's Attachment and Loss, published in 1969 and revised in 1982, is the founding statement of attachment theory. A definition of attachment is very widely attributed to page six of that volume, and when this publication went to check it, the definition was not there: page six concerns the legitimacy of borrowing concepts from other fields. The entry exists so that the misattribution is recorded rather than repeated, and so that anyone citing the famous line knows it needs a different reference. The book itself remains a book, and belongs in the book library rather than here.
Written from the citation as recorded when this source was checked.
What our sources record
Reproduced as it was written when this source was checked, figures and all.
Bowlby, J. (1969/1982). Attachment and Loss, Vol. 1: Attachment. 2nd edition, Basic Books. The definition widely attributed to page 6 of this volume does not appear on that page, which concerns the legitimacy of borrowing concepts from animal behaviour, and the sentence does not appear in the volume. Checked against the second edition.
Where we use it
- What the Crib Actually Decides, Why We Care
Reliability of this reference
The link below is the right work, with one detail that does not line up. Book with no DOI. Publisher page for the Basic Books second edition, ISBN 9780465005437; Hachette lists the edition date as 1983 rather than the 1982 given in the citation. Worth opening before quoting a figure from it.
The source
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-bowlby/attachment/9780465005437/?lens=basic-books