Introduction: how do we become who we are?
Mother-love: worst-case scenarios
Enter Bowlby: the search for a theory of relatedness
Bowlby and Klein: fantasy vs. reality
Psychopaths in the making: forty-four juvenile thieves
Call to arms: the World Health report
First battlefield: "a two-year-old goes to hospital"
Of goslings and babies: the birth of attachment theory
"What's the use to psychoanalyze a goose?" : turmoil, hostility, and debate
Monkey love: warm, secure, continuous
Second front: Ainsworth's American revolution
The Minnesota studies: parenting style and personality development
The mother, the father, and the outside world: attachment quality and childhood relationships
Structures of the mind: building a model of human connection
The black box reopened: Mary Main's Berkeley studies
They are leaning out for love: the strategies and defenses of anxiously attached children, and the possibilities for change
Ugly needs, ugly me: anxious attachment and shame
A new generation of critics: the findings contested
Born that way? Stella Chess and the difficult child
Renaissance of biological determinism: the temperament debate
A rage in the nursery: the infant day-care wars
Astonishing attunements: the unseen emotional life of babies
The residue of our parents: passing on insecure attachment
Attachment in adulthood: the secure base vs. the desperate child within
Repetition and change: working through insecure attachment
Avoidant society: cultural roots of anxious attachment
Looking back: Bowlby and Ainsworth.
