John Bowlby's Attachment Theory

In order to get a greater understanding about Peter's mental health issues, and how these evolved over the years, it would be beneficial to look back retrospectively to his childhood and his attachment pattern. The attachment theory is largely applied to the study of psychological processes, such as children and adults mental health , interpersonal functioning, coping mechanisms or emotion regulation. John Bowlby (1969), conceived the attachment theory to explain the importance of the relationships between the child and the care giver. In Bowlby's opinion, to affirm that a child is attached to someone, might mean that this child is ‘strongly disposed to seek proximity to and contact with a specific figure and to do so in certain situations,