John Bowlby: Attachment Theory Across Generations, the companion film to Mary Ainsworth, shows how relational patterns set early in life affect emotional bonds later in life. This film's focus is on attachment theory as it explains many aspects of personality development from childhood through to adulthood. Bowlby addresses issues related to attachment in later life as people seek to establish new ties and cope with separations and losses.
Mary Ainsworth: Attachment and the Growth of Love is centered largely on the development of attachment relationships in infancy. This film is basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British psychiatrist John Bowlby, Ainsworth gave us new understandings of the huge impact very early emotional experiences have on personality development across the life span.
