Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

====Attachment theory====
{{See also|Attachment theory#Psychoanalysis}}
[[Attachment theory]] was developed theoretically by [[John Bowlby]] and formalized empirically by [[Mary Ainsworth]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bretherton|first=Inge|date=1992|title=The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth.|url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.759|journal=Developmental Psychology|language=en|volume=28|issue=5|pages=759–775|doi=10.1037/0012-1649.28.5.759|issn=0012-1649}}</ref> Bowlby was trained psychoanalytically but was concerned about some properties of psychoanalysis;<ref name="Goldberg 1995">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32856560|title=Attachment theory : social, developmental, and clinical perspectives|date=1995|publisher=Analytic Press|editor-first1=Susan|editor-last1=Goldberg|editor-first2=Roy|editor-last2=Muir|editor-first3=John|editor-last3=Kerr|isbn=0-88163-184-1|location=Hillsdale, NJ|oclc=32856560}}</ref>{{Rp|23}} he was troubled by the dogmatism of psychoanalysis at the time, its arcane terminology, the lack of attention to environment in child behaviour, and the concepts derived from talking therapy to child behaviour.<ref name="Goldberg 1995" />{{Rp|23}} In response, he developed an alternative conceptualization of child behaviour based on principles on [[ethology]].<ref name="Goldberg 1995" />{{Rp|24}} Bowlby's theory of attachment rejects Freud's model of [[psychosexual development]] based on the Oedipal model.<ref name="Goldberg 1995" />{{Rp|25}} For his work, Bowlby was shunned from psychoanalytical circles who did not accept his theories. Nonetheless, his conceptualization was adopted widely by mother-infant research in the 1970s.<ref name="Goldberg 1995" />{{Rp|26}}