Attachment theory: social, developmental, and clinical perspectives

Attachment Theory: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives 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 inter-generational transmission of trauma. A rare volume, at once an introductory text and an invaluable source book for the specialist, Attachment Theory provides a comprehensive overview of the field with original contributions by leading attachment researchers and theorists.

Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Susan Goldberg -- Part 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 -- Part II: contemporary research -- The origins of attachment security : "classical" and contextual determinants / Jay Belsky, Kate Rosenberger, and Keith Crnic -- Influence of attachment theory on ethological studies of biobehavioral development in nonhuman primates / Stephen J. Suomi -- Hiden 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 [and others] -- Child maltreatment and attachment organization : im…