... and child, which itself becomes an important part of personality. According to Bowlby this bond serves as an internal working model and basis for all future relationships from infancy to adult life. After the age of five, a critical period in childhood, he believed a child's internal working model of relationships is resistant to change. In this sense, he agreed with Freud that ... others (object-relations theory). In this sense, Bowlby rejected Freud's idea of a pre-existent ego. According to object-relations theory, early childhood experience with primary caregivers has a strong influ...

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