Attachment Theory Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives

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.

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

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 ofThe Analytic Press and author, AMost Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.