Attachment to Pets
Julius, Henri / Beetz, Andrea / Kotrschal, Kurt / Turner, Dennis C. / Uvnäs-Moberg, Kerstin
The biological and psychological basis of pet therapy / animal-assisted therapy
and what this means for practice
"A comprehensive, scientific foundation for human-animal therapy." (Judith Solomon)
In recent years, the ancient symbiosis between humans and their pets has entered a new phase, marked by the burgeoning clinical specialty of human-animal therapy. This approach uses the relationship between humans and their (mainly) mammalian pets ...