BOWLBY BEFORE BOWLBY - THE SOURCES OF AN INTELLECTUAL DEPARTURE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY

John Bowlby's first scientific papers express a viewpoint of the etiol ogy of childhood disorders that gradually developed during his univers ity years and the first years of his professional life. As becomes cle ar from, among other things, Bowlby's private correspondence, it was t he period spent as a student at Cambridge, his work as a teacher at tw o progressive schools, and his work at a child guidance clinic that al lowed him to articulate a view on childhood deviancy that was at varia nce with the Kleinian variant of psychoanalysis. Bowlby's position as an 'independent' thinker in the British Psyche-Analytical Society can be understood against the background of these intellectual influences, (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.