John Bowlby and contemporary issues of clinical diagnosis
Citation
Duschinsky, R., Beckwith, H., woolgar, M., & Barnes, G. (2018). John Bowlby and contemporary issues of clinical diagnosis. Attachment https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33019
Abstract
What might clinicians make of Bowlby’s first patient if he were seen by services today? How might thinking with Bowlby help us critically consider children whose presentations span a number of diagnoses, and children who do not readily fit any existing diagnostic category? We will consider these questions through exploration of Bowlby’s writings,
as well as review of the literature on diagnosis, trauma, and caregiving environments. We identify tensions between the three key legacies of Bowlby’s work: the focus on family systems; attachment theory as a theory of individual development; and psychiatric classification
of attachment. In doing so, we will use conversation with Bowlby’s ideas as the basis for a consideration of the purpose and function of diagnosis
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Wellcome Trust
Funder references
Wellcome Trust (103343/Z/13/A)
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33019
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285667
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