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. <p><em>Goldberg</em>, Introduction. <strong>Part I: Origins and Context of Attachment Theory.</strong><em>Holmes</em>, "Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall": John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Psychoanalysis. <em>Bretherton</em>, The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. <em>Grossman</em>, The Evolution and History of Attachment Research and Theory. <em>Eagle</em>, The Developmental Perspectives of Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theory. <strong>Part II: Contemporary Research.</strong><em>Belsky, Rosenberger, & Crnic</em>, The Origins of Attachment Security: "Classical" and Contextual Determinants. <em>Suomi</em>, Influence of Attachment Theory on Ethological Studies of Biobehavioral Development in Nonhuman Primates. <em>Hofer</em>, Hidden Regulators: Implications for a New Understanding of Attachment, Separation, and Loss. <strong>Part III: Clinical Significance and Applications of Attachment.</strong><em>Fonagy, Steele, Steele, Leigh, Kennedy, Mattoon, & Target</em>, Attachment, the Reflective Self, and Borderline States: The Predictive Specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and Pathological Emotional Development. <em>Cicchetti, Toth</em>, Child Maltreatment and Attachment Organization: Implications for Intervention. <em>Adam, Keller, & West</em>, Attachment Organization and Vulnerability to Loss, Separation, and Abuse in Disturbed Adolescents. <em>Liotti</em>, Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment in the Psychotherapy of the Dissociative Disorders. <strong>Part IV: New Directions in Attachment Theory.</strong><em>Crittenden</em>, Attachment and Psychopathology. <em>Main</em>, Recent Studies in Attachment: Overviews, with Selected Implications for Clinical Work.</p>