Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers,
practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have …

Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family
courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The …

“An 8-month-old infant clambers on… a fallen tree while its mother sits about 7 feet below.
The infant slips and hangs by two hands.[His mother] looks up, stands on two legs, and …

THE MEASUREMENT OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND Page 1 1 THE MEASUREMENT
OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS IN INFANCY AND EARLY …

Maternal psychopathology and traumatic life experiences may adversely impact family
functioning, the quality of the parent–child relationship and the attachment bond, placing the …

Epidemiological, clinical, and neurobiological studies of the last 30 years suggest that
traumatic attachments during the early years of life are associated to specific …

The objective of the study was to examine the longitudinal relation between early school-
age measures of maternal psychosocial distress, quality of mother-child interactions, and …

Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) has been described as' the most original figure in
American psychiatry'. Challenging Freud's psychosexual theory, Sullivan founded the …

Attachment refers to a psychobiological principle that is deeply rooted in evolutionary
development; it is thought to contribute a major advantage in the survival of the social group …

Based on attachment theory, we hypothesized that self-reported childhood experiences of
disengaged parenting (DP) would predict adults' psychological symptoms even more than …