Dr. Mary D. Ainsworth, a developmental psychologist whose work revolutionized the understanding of the bond between mothers and infants, died in Charlottesville, Va., on March 21. She was 85.Dr.

Source: flickr: Attachment-1 by Jencu, CC by 2.0 Some feminists have criticized attachment theory as being a sexist attack on working mothers. Their influence may be part of the reason so many ...

The father of attachment theory, John Bowlby, was packed off to boarding school at the age of ten in the 1910s, and later said he wouldn’t put a dog through a similar ordeal. He grew up to become a ...