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Notes
1 1 An abbreviated version of this paper was read before the British Psycho‐Analytical Society on 5 November, 1958.
2 2 Although in this paper I shall usually refer to mothers, it is to be understood that in every case I am concerned with the person who mothers the child and to whom he becomes attached, rather than to the natural mother.
3 3 This account is adapted from those given in Robertson and Bowlby (1952) and Robertson (1953a).
4 4 In the previous paper and the early drafts of this one the term ‘denial’ was used to denote the third phase. The problem of terminology is discussed more fully after the phase of detachment has been described.
5 5 As explained in my previous paper (Bowlby 1958), ‘the terms primary and secondary refer to whether the response is built‐in and inherited or acquired through the process of learning.’
6 6 See section ‘Ingredients of Separation
