This cache is part of a series which are named after figures within the world of psychoanalysis/psychotherapy whose writings and theories have been particularly influential. Enjoy!
John Bowlby studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences Trinity College, Cambridge, winning prizes for outstanding intellectual performance. After Cambridge, he worked with maladjusted and delinquent children until, at the age of twenty-two, he enrolled at University College Hospital in London. At twenty-six, he qualified in medicine. While still in medical school, he enrolled himself in the Institute for Psychoanalysis. Following medical school, he trained in adult psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital.
In 1936, aged 30, he qualified as a psychoanalyst.
During the first six months of World War II, Bowlby worked at a clinic in Canonbury in the child psychiatry unit. Later on in the war, Bowlby became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Alongside his job in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Bowlby explained that he also worked for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) during the months of May and June in 1940 where he dealt with tragic war neurosis cases. Additionally, the children that were being treated at the Canonbury clinic were evacuated to the child guidance clinic in Cambridge, due to the air raids from the War.
Bowlby explained in an interview that he spent time going back and forth from Cambridge to London where he would see patients in private. From this experience, Bowlby was able to work with several children at Cambridge that were evacuated from London and separated from their families and nannies. This actually extended his research interested on separation that he was focused on pre-war.
During the first winter of World War II, Bowlby began working on his first published work Juvenile Thieves. Although he began working on this book at the beginning of the Second World War, it was not published until 1944 (while being published again in 1946), close to when the war was finishing. Bowlby studied several children during his time at the Canonbury clinic, and developed a research project based on case studies of the children and family histories.
Bowlby examined 44 delinquent children from Canonbury who had a history of stealing and compared them to controls from Canonbury that were being treated for various reasons but did not have a history of stealing. Bowlby categorized the delinquent children into six different character types which included: normal, depressed, circular, hyperthymic, affectionless, and schizoid.
One of Bowlby's main findings through his research with these children was that 17 out of the 44 thieves experienced early and prolonged separation (six months or more) from their primary caregiver before the age of five. In comparison, only two out of the 44 children who did not steal had experienced prolonged separation from their primary care giver before the age of five.
More specifically, Bowlby found that 12 out of the 14 children were categorized as affectionless were found to have experienced complete and prolonged separation before the age of five. These findings were important and brought more attention to the impact of a child's early environmental experiences on their healthy development.
Yattendon stretches from Everington in the west to the hamlet of Burnt Hill in the east and the woodland just east of Yattendon Court, including Mumgrove Copse, Bushy Copse, Clack's Copse and Gravelpit Copse. The motorway forms most of its southern boundary and some of the houses on the northern edge of Frilsham are actually in Yattendon. The River Pang flows through the west of the parish. It was in the hundred of Faircross, which was of little consequence after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and effectively ceased to function after 1886.
The village had a fortified manor house or castle, Yattendon Castle. It was home of Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France and father of Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church.
Other notable residents of Yattendon include: Robert Bridges, who later became Poet Laureate, lived at Yattendon from his retirement from medicine in 1882 until he moved to Boars Hill near Oxford. Thomas Carte, noted English historian, once held the rectory and was buried in the church. Sir Miles Dempsey, Second World War general Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, the newspaper magnate who lived at Yattendon Court. From 1925 to 1940, he amalgamated several small farming estates and formed the Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly 9,000 acres (36 km²) of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations. Egon Ronay the restaurant critic, lived in Yattendon until his death in 2010. Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court (not the present building). Ruth Mott, presenter of the BBC's "Victorian Kitchen" and "Wartime Kitchen and Garden" series. Technical advisor on the 2001 Robert Altman film, "Gosford Park".