Wikipedia talk:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-05-21 John Bowlby

All - Bowlby's Contribution

My name is Kingsley Miller and I am very interested in making a video clip on YouTube about Bowlby. My view point is that his work is overrated. He has a reputation as a great psychologist but this was built on his theory of 'maternal deprivation' which was popular after the Second World War. I originally went to the page in Wikipedia on Bowlby in my researches and found the reference was wrong to omit anything about his original theory and added it as an 'addendum' without any previous knowledge of this discussion. Bowlby's real contribution lies in being the first psychologist to term the phrase 'attachment theory' but there were others working in the field at the time and it would be wrong to credit him with 'inventing' this theory. Nevertheless the popular impression is that his research proved that small children are 'damaged' when removed from their mothers and many still regard any attack on Bowlby as an assault on this research. I really respect the work of Wikipedia and apropos to this contribution I have tried to contact the organization to thank them for their work on the internet. But if the entry is to perpetuate the myth about Bowlby's reputation built on the theory of 'maternal deprivation' then it should be removed altogether as inaccurate. (I have written a booklet called 'even Toddlers Need Fathers' and recently produced a video clip on 'Bonding and the attachment theory' which has proved popular on YouTube).

Kingsley Miller 89.243.141.101 08:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC) 89.243.141.101 08:50, 1 July 2007 (UTC) 89.243.141.101 08:52, 1 July 2007 (UTC)