Attachment Theory

At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such diverse clinical topics as child abuse, borderline personality disorder, dissociation, adolescent suicide, treatment responsiveness, false memory, narrative competence, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.

Autorentext

Susan Goldberg, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Chidren, Toronto, and Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Toronto.

Roy Muir, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Co-head, Infancy Program, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

John Kerr is former Associate Editor of The Analytic Press and author, A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.

Inhalt

Introduction - Susan Goldberg
I. Origins and Context of Attachment Theory
"Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall": John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Psychoanalysis - Jeremy Holmes
The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Inge Bretherton
The Evolution and History of Attachment Research and Theory - Klaus E. Grossmann
The Developmental Perspectives of Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theory

• Morris Eagle
  II. Contemporary Research
  The Origins of Attachment Security: "Classical" and Contextual Determinants
• Jay Belsky, Kate Rosenberger, and KeithCrnic
  Infuence of Attachment Theory on Ethological Studies of Biobehavioral Development in Nonhuman Primates - Stephen J. Suomi
  Hidden Regulators: Implications for a New Understanding of Attachment,
  Separation, and Loss - Myron A. Hofer
  Part III: Clinical Significance and Applications of Attachment
  Attachment, the Reflective Self, and Borderline States: The Predictive Specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and Pathological Emotional Development
• Peter Fonagy, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Tom Leigh, Roger Kennedy,
  Gretta Mattoon, and Mary Target
  Child Maltreatment and Attachment Organization: Implications for Intervention - DanteCicchetti and Sheree L.Toth
  Attachment Organization and Vulnerability to Loss,Separation, and Abuse in Disturbed Adolescents - Kenneth S. Adam, Adrienne E. Sheldon Keller, and Malcolm West
  Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment in the Psychotherapy of the Dissociative Disorders - Giovanni Liotti
  IV. New Directions in Attachment Theory
  Attachment and Psychopathology - Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
  Recent Studies in Attachment: Overviews,
  with Selected Implications for Clinical Work - Mary Main