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The legacy of John Bowlby

We would like to dedicate this special issue on attachment and developmental psychopathology to the memory of John Bowlby. In his trilogy on attachment, Bowlby (1969/1982, 1973, 1980) significantly advanced the disciplines of psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and developmental psychopathology (Ainsworth, 1969, 1973; Bretherton, 1987; Sroufe, 1983). As depicted in his article "The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds" (1977a) Bowlby described attachment theory as "a way of conceptualizing the propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others and of explaining the many forms of emotional distress and personality disturbance, including anxiety, anger, depression and emotional detachment, to which unwilling separation and loss give rise" (p. 201). Throughout his career, Bowlby articulated how attachment theory could inform our understanding of the different pathways leading to mental health and psychopathology as well as provide a framework for implementing therapeutic interventions with a variety of clinical conditions (Bowlby, 1977a, 1977b, 1988a).