Attachment and Loss, Volume 3, Loss: Sadness and Depression

In this third and final volume, John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health. Here he examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expressions of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss.
The theories presented, differ in many ways from those advanced by Freud and elaborated by his followers, so much so that the frame of reference now offered for understanding personality development and psychopathology amounts to a new paradigm.