John Bowlby Quotes

#1. If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

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#2. Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

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#3. If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

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#4. It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

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#5. Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

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#6. The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

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#7. Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud.

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#8. The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved.

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#9. We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

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#10. risks. Thus we take it for granted that, when a relationship to a special loved person is endangered, we are not only anxious but are usually angry as well. As responses to the risk of loss, anxiety and anger go hand in hand. It is not for nothing that they have the same etymological root.

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#11. What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.

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#12. It will happen but it will take time.

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#13. The human psyche, like human bones, is strongly inclined towards self-healing.

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#14. for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

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