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As authors of this chapter and editors of this book, we are both clinical social workers
who have been teaching, researching, and writing about attachment for a number of
years. We met while serving as adjunct faculty at the Smith College School for
Social Work doctoral program in 2006, teaching attachment, object relations, and
self psychology. At the beginning of our careers in the 1960s and 1970s, one of us
(Bennett) became aware of Bowlby’s ideas in her work with mothers and babies in
neonatal intensive care units, while the other’s (Nelson) connection with attachment
theory was sparked by her curiosity about adult crying in psychotherapy. We each
went on to use attachment theory as a basis for dissertation research for doctorates
in clinical social work. |
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