John Bowlby: Why We Attach | A Sleep Story from the Pioneers

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-09-23

Fall asleep with John Bowlby in a calm, carefully researched journey through attachment theory, separation, loss and the relationships that give us somewhere to return. Tonight, we begin with an imagined child playing with a ball near a parent on a park bench. The child moves a little farther away, becomes absorbed in the game, and then briefly looks back. The parent is still there. From that simple moment, we follow Bowlby’s life and the development of attachment theory: his childhood and early work with children, his psychoanalytic training, his research at the Ta...