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of the chapter tends to go on about Bowlby's life and childhood. I noticed that his childhood was very different from what his ideal thought of how a child should be raised. I tend to think that maybe he had some hidden resentment towards his parents especially for sending him off to boarding school at such a young age. He is even quoted as saying he "wouldn't send a dog off to boarding school at that age."

Bowlby was later introduced to the idea that a parent's unresolved conflicts as a child were responsible for how a parent treated their children. The book gives a good example of a father or wrestled with the problem of masturbation all his life and how when his eight-year old son did it he would put his son under a "cold tap". Bowlby was looked down upon by his analytic superiors because it was not mainstream.

Another important idea in this chapter has to do with the Oedipus complex. Freud had many patients whom were hysterical and he blamed this on the molestation from parents, but later retracted this idea saying that it could have ...