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Attachment and Morality: Developmental Themes with Different Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sula Wolff
Sula Wolff*
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University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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The stage theories of personality development, such as those of Piaget, Freud, and Erikson, are not currently popular, in part because of misunderstandings about the supposed restrictions of timing and of confines of developmental stages. But the stage theorists did draw attention to newly appearing, qualitatively different cognitive, emotional, and behavioural systems of interaction, which come into being sequentially as children grow up.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 2 , February 1990 , pp. 266 - 271
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990

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