◎作者簡介：

約翰•鮑爾比（1907.2.26—1990.9.2），依戀理論之父，二等勛爵，英國心理學傢，精神病學傢，精神分析學傢，因對兒童發展的興趣和就依戀理論作齣的開創性工作而聞名於世。在一項於2002年發錶在《普通心理學評論》上的調查報告中，鮑爾比在“20世紀最偉大的100位心理學傢”中排第49位。此外，在一項由美國國傢健康研究所組織的調查中，約翰•鮑爾比被公認為三大最著名的發展心理學傢之一。2005年，為紀念約翰•鮑爾比，一名登山愛好者將吉爾吉斯斯坦境內的一座無名山峰命名為“約翰•鮑爾比山”。

"These essays, spanning 20 years of Bowlby's speaking about the forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and systematic. They make an excellent introduction to his thought."

-- British Journal of Psychiatry

John Bowlby's interest in the effects on a developing child of different forms of family experience began in 1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviorally-challenged children. Soon after, the spark of his illustrious career would help parents and psychologists arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant. Informed by wide clinical experience, and written with the author's well known humanity and lucidity, these key lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the mental health professions.