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A Hungarian Precursor of Attachment Theory: Ferenczi's Successor, Imre Hermann
- American Imago
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 419-426
- 10.1353/aim.0.0068
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Attachment theory has by now achieved considerable scientific and clinical respectability. This paper seeks to remind readers of a Hungarian precursor of this theory, Imre Hermann, who sensed astonishingly early the relevance of ethological research and its potential implications for establishing a sound theory of development.