# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bowlby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:01:35.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bowlby"
name: "John Bowlby"
slug: "john-bowlby"
description: "Edward John Mostyn Bowlby was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. Bowlby was inspired by Melanie Klein during his psychoanalytic training. Melanie Klein was his supervisor; however, they had different views about the role of the mother in the treatment of a three-year-old boy. Specifically and importantly, Klein stressed the role of the child's fantasies about his mother, but Bowlby emphasised the actual history of the relationship. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bowlby as the 49th most cited psychologist of the 20th century."
tagline: "British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1907–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Bowlby-Ainsworth_Award.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1907-02-26"
deathDate: "1990-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.340314136125654
  historical:           22.73898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump