Attachment Reconsidered Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory

Name: Attachment Reconsidered Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory
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ISBN: 9781137386748

ISBN-10: 1137386746

ISBN-13: 9781137386748

Edition: 2013

Authors: Naomi Quinn, Jeannette Marie Mageo

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Attachment theory has massively influenced contemporary psychology, primarily from an American perspective. However, the anthropological criticism of ethnocentrism has wider implications for the discipline of psychology, which often unintentionally introduces psychologists' culturally biased assumptions into theory intended to be general, and is so devoted to culturally decontextualized experimental procedures that fail to challenge this ethnocentrism. Thus the current volume is not only challenge to attachment theorists, but also an object lesson for psychologists of many other stripes. Beyond simply a Euro-American perspective, attachment theory must be contextualized by examining it…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 261
Size: 5.98" wide x 11.11" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 8.756
Language: English