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John Bowlby revisited – a retrospective review
- Author:
- HARRIS Tirril
- Journal article citation:
- Bereavement Care, 28(1), April 2009, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Cruse Bereavement Care
This is a retrospective review of the three volumes of Bowlby’s trilogy, Attachment and Loss, where he set out his revolutionary view of attachment as the dominant drive behind human behaviour. The impact this has had on psychological thinking is discussed, in particular on ideas about mourning, and the connection with Darwinian evolution.
Volunteer befriending as an intervention for depression
- Author:
- HARRIS Tirril
- Journal article citation:
- Bereavement Care, 25(2), Summer 2006, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Cruse Bereavement Care
Many episodes of major depression disorder are preceded by severe loss experience. In researching the influence of life events on mental health, the author identified factors which seemed to foster resilience to depression. On the basis of these findings, an intervention involving volunteer befriending with two groups of women was set up, to see if it could prevent depression and aid recovery. Though only a few of the women in the project had been bereaved, the study highlights some of the positive effects of befriending for those planning bereavement care services.
Social origins of depression: a study of psychiatric disorder in women
- Authors:
- BROWN George W., HARRIS Tirril
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1978
- Pagination:
- 410p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Befriending as an intervention for chronic depression among women in an inner city
- Authors:
- HARRIS Tirril, BROWN George V., ROBINSON Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, March 1999, pp.219-224.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Evaluates volunteer befriending as an intervention among women with chronic depression in inner London. The findings are discussed in relation to standard drug-trial results and to another befriending intervention with the elderly. Concludes that the results are not unpromising. Additional trials with less restricted intake conditions, and in more naturalistic general practice settings, might confirm volunteer befriending as a useful adjunct to current treatments.