Bowlby & Attachment Theory
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Bowlby & Attachment Theory
John Bowlby is most often credited with our understanding of attachment theory in a developmental sense. Based on Freud's previous work, Bowlby constructed a model of attachment theory based on what he called 'the internal working model theory'. Bowlby believed that the infant's innate attachment behaviors were not only physical, but social in nature, for he discovered that infants would still bond with a caregiver even if the caregiver did not fulfill basic physiological needs. For example, an infant that was not being consistently cared for, or even abused, could still form an attachment with the primary-caregiver regardless that these needs were not being adequately met.
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