Attachment Theory

Arietta Slade, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita, Clinical Psychology, The City University of New York.  A theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher, she has written about the development of parental reflective functioning, the implications of attachment for child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and for infant mental health practice. She is one of the founders and co-directors of Minding the Baby®, an interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.  Dr. Slade is editor, with Jeremy Holmes, of the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications, 2013), with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner, of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008), and with Dennie Wolf, of Children at Play (Oxford University Press, 1994).  She has also been in private practice for over thirty-five years, working with individuals of all ages.

• VOLUME ONE John Bowlby Responses of Young Children to Separation from Their Mothers - J. Robertson and John Bowlby Observations of the Sequences of Response of Children Aged 18 to 24 Months during the Course of SeparationCan I Leave My Baby? - John Bowlby The Nature of the Child′s Tie to His Mother - John Bowlby Separation Anxiety - John Bowlby Processes of Mourning - John Bowlby On Knowing What You Are Not Supposed to Know and Feeling What You Are Not Supposed to Feel - John Bowlby Psychoanalysis as a Natural Science - John Bowlby Violence in the Family as a Disorder of the Attachment and Care-Giving Systems - John Bowlby Developmental Psychiatry Comes of Age - John Bowlby PART TWO: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND IMMEDIATE IMPACTThe Nature of Love - Harry Harlow Effects of Bereavement on Physical and Mental Health - C. Parkes A Study of the Medical Records of WidowsAttachment Behavior out of Doors - J. Anderson John Bowlby and Ethology - Frank Van der Horst, René Van der Veer and Marinus van IJzendoorn An Annotated Interview with Robert Hinde The Origins of Attachment Theory - Inge Bretherton John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth′Something There Is That Doesn′t Love a Wall′ - Jeremy Holmes John Bowlby, Attachment Theory and PsychoanalysisVOLUME TWO PART ONE: THE EARLY CRITICSDiscussion of Dr. John Bowlby′s Paper - Anna Freud Discussion of Dr. John Bowlby′s Paper - René Spitz A Cultural Anthropologist′s Approach to Maternal Deprivation - Margaret Mead Maternal Deprivation, 1972-1978 - Michael Rutter New Findings, New Concepts, New ApproachesPART TWO: MARY AINSWORTH AND THE STRANGE SITUATIONThe Development of Infant-Mother Interaction among the Ganda - Mary Ainsworth Attachment and Exploratory Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation - Mary Ainsworth and B.A. Wittig Individual Differences in Strange-Situation Behavior of One-Year-Olds - Mary Ainsworth, Sylvia Bell and D.J. Stayton Attachment and Dependency - Mary Ainsworth A ComparisonThe Development of Infant-Mother Attachment - Mary Ainsworth Infant-Mother Attachment and Social Development - Mary Ainsworth, Sylvia Bell and D.J. Stayton Socialization as a Product of Reciprocal Responsiveness to SignalsInfant-Mother Attachment - Mary Ainsworth Mary D. Salter Ainsworth - Mary Ainsworth An Ethological Approach to Personality Development - Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby PART THREE: THE MINNESOTA STUDIESAttachment as Organizational Construct - L. Alan Sroufe and Everett Waters The Reliability and Stability of Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment - Everett Waters Continuity of Adaptation in the Second Year - Leah Matas, Richard Arend and L. Alan Sroufe The Relationship between Quality of Attachment and Later CompetenceThe Coherence of Individual Development - L. Alan Sroufe Early Care, Attachment and Subsequent Developmental IssuesDifferences in Infant-Mother Attachment at 12 and 18 Months - Brian Vaughn et al Stability and Change in Families under StressVOLUME THREE PART ONE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIESGerman Children′s Behavior towards Their Mothers at 12 Months and Their Fathers at 18 Months in Ainsworth′s Strange Situation - Klaus Grossman et al The Secure-Base Phenomenon across Cultures - German Posada et al Children′s Behavior, Mothers′ Preferences and Experts′ ConceptsPART TWO: MARY MAIN: THE ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW AND DISCOVERY OF THE DISORGANIZED PATTERN OF ATTACHMENTThe Quality of the Toddler′s Relationship to Mother and to Father - Mary Main and Donna Weston Related to Conflict Behavior and the Readiness to Establish New RelationshipsSecurity in Infancy, Childhood and Adulthood - Mary Main, Nancy Kaplan and Jude Cassidy A Move to the Level of RepresentationProcedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation - Mary Main and J. Solomon Parents′ Unresolved Traumatic Experiences Are Related to Infant Disorganized Attachment Status - Mary Main and Erik Hesse Is Frightened and/or Frightening Parental Behavior the Linking Mechanism?Metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, and singular (coherent) vs. multiple (incoherent) models of attachment: Findings and directions for future research - Mary MainDiscourse, Memory and the Adult Attachment Interview - Erik Hesse A Note with Emphasis on the Emerging Cannot Classify CategoryThe Organized Categories of Infant, Child and Adult Attachment - Mary Main Flexible versus Inflexible Attention under Attachment-Related StressDisorganized Infant, Child and Adult Attachment - Erik Hesse and Mary Main Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional StrategiesPART THREE: FURTHER STUDIES OF DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT Attachment and Early Maltreatment - Byron Egeland and L. Alan Sroufe Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment Relationships in Maltreated Infants - Vicki Carlson et al Attachment organization in maltreated preschoolers - D. Cicchetti & D. Barnett Disorganized Infant Attachment Classification and Maternal Psychosocial Problems as Predictors of Hostile-Aggressive Behavior in the Pre-School Classroom - Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Lisbeth Alpern and Betty Repacholi A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Attachment Disorganization/Disorientation - Elizabeth Carlson Maternal Frightened, Frightening or Atypical Maternal Behavior and Disorganized Infant Attachment Patterns - Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Elisa Bronfman and Elizabeth Parsons Frightening Maternal Behavior Linking Unresolved Loss and Disorganized Infant Attachment - Carlo Schuengel, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus van IJzendoorn Expanding the Concept of Unresolved Mental States - Karlen Lyons-Ruth et al Hostile/Helpless States of Mind on the Adult Attachment Interview Are Associated with Disrupted Mother-Infant Communication and Infant DisorganizationVOLUME FOUR PART ONE: ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW AND LONGITUDINAL STUDIESMaternal Representations of Attachment during Pregnancy Predict Organization of Infant-Mother Attachment at One Year of Age - Peter Fonagy, Howard Steele and Miriam Steele Adult Attachment Representations, Parental Responsiveness and Infant Attachment - Marinus van IJzendoorn A Meta-Analysis on the Predictive Validity of the Adult Attachment InterviewAttachment Security in Infancy and Early Childhood - Everett Waters A 20-Year Longitudinal StudyUnderstanding and Resolving Emotional Conflict - Howard Steele and Miriam Steele The London Parent-Child ProjectAttachment and Development - L. Alan Sroufe A Prospective, Longitudinal Study from Birth to Adulthood PART TWO: AFFECT REGULATIONEmotion Regulation - Jude Cassidy Influences of Attachment Relationships Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation - Mario Mikulincer, Phillip Shaver and Dana Pereg The Dynamics, Development and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related StrategiesModern Attachment Theory - Judith Schore and Allan Schore The Central Role of Affect Regulation in Development and TreatmentLending a Hand - James Coan, Hillary Schaefer and Richard Davidson Social Regulation of the Neural Response to ThreatPART THREE: FATHERSQualitative Aspects of Mother- and Father-Infant Attachments - Michael Lamb Fathers in Attachment Theory and Research - Inge Bretherton A ReviewPART FOUR: ASSESSING ATTACHMENT BEYOND INFANCYDefining and Assessing Individual Differences in Attachment Relationships - Everett Waters and Kathleen Deane Q-Methodology and the Organization of Behavior in Infancy and Early ChildhoodCategories of Response to Reunion with the Parent at AgeSix - Mary Main and Jude Cassidy Predictable from Infant Attachment Classifications and Stable over a One-Month PeriodAssessing Internal Working Models of the Attachment Relationship - Inge Bretherton, Doreen Ridgeway and Jude Cassidy The Child Attachment Interview - Yael Shmueli-Goetz et al A Psychometric Study of Reliability and Discriminant Validity Attachment Theory as a Framework for Understanding Sequelae of Severe Adolescent Psychopathology - Joseph Allen, Stuart Hauser and Emily Borman-Spurrell An 11-Year Follow-up StudyPART FIVE: EXTENDING THE ATTACHMENT PARADIGM TO ADULTSRomantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process - Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver Avoidance of Intimacy - Kim Bartholomew An Attachment PerspectiveStability of Attachment Representations - Judith Crowell, Dominique Treboux and Everett Waters The Transition to MarriageA Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment - Patricia Crittenden Growing through Attachment - Brooke Feeney and Maredith Van Vleet The Interplay of Attachment Exploration in AdulthoodVOLUME FIVE PART ONE: MENTALIZINGAttachment, the Reflective Self and Borderline States - Peter Fonagy et al The Predictive Specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and Pathological Emotional DevelopmentRethinking Maternal Sensitivity - Elizabeth Meins et al Mothers′ Comments in Infants′ Mental Processes Predict Security of Attachment at 12 MonthsParental reflective functioning: An introduction - Arietta SladePART TWO: PARENTING AND CARE-GIVINGDefining the Care-Giving System - Judith Solomon and Carol George Toward a Theory of Care-GivingEmanuel Miller Lecture - Jay Belsky Developmental Risks (Still) Associated with Early Child CarePART THREE: TEMPERAMENT, ATTACHMENT AND ′DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY′Attachment Classification from the Perspective of Infant Caregiver Relationships and Infant Temperament - L. Alan Sroufe For Better and for Worse - Jay Belsky, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus van IJzendoorn Differential Susceptibility to Environmental InfluencesDifferential Susceptibility to Rearing Environment Depending on Dopamine-Related Genes - Marian Bakermans-Krankenburg and Marinus van Ijzendoorn New Evidence and a Meta-AnalysisPART FOUR: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVESAttachment, Mating and Parenting - Jay Belsky An Evolutionary InterpretationEarly Determinants of Behavior - Stephen Suomi Evidence from Private StudiesMaternal Care, Gene Expression and the Transmission of Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity across Generations - Michael Meaney Psychobiological Roots of Early Attachment - Myron Hofer A Behavior–Genetic Study of Parenting Quality, Infant Attachment Security, and Their Covariation in a Nationally Representative Sample - G. Roisman and R. FraleyLive Long and Prosper - Everett Waters A Note on Attachment and EvolutionVOLUME SIX PART ONE : ATTACHMENT AND PSYCHOANALYSISAttachment and Sexuality - Morris Eagle The Development and Organization of Attachment - Arietta Slade Implications for PsychoanalysisThe Two-Person Unconscious - Karlen Lyons-Ruth Inter-Subjective Dialogue, Enactive Relational Representation and the Emergence of New Forms of Relational Organization PART TWO: CHILD APPLIED AND CLINICALPreventive Intervention and Outcome with Anxiously Attached Dyads - Alicia Lieberman, Donna Weston and Jeree Pawl Beyond Insecurity - Charles Zeanah A Re-Conceptualization of Attachment Disorders of Infancy Changing Toddlers′ and Preschoolers′ Attachment Classifications - Kent Hoffman et al The Circle of Security InterventionFostering Secure Attachment in Infants in Maltreating Families through Preventative Interventions - Dante Cicchetti, Fred Rogosch and Sheree Toth Effects of an Attachment-Based Intervention on the Cortisol Production of Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care - Mary Dozier PART THREE: ADULT CLINCALClinicians as Caregivers - Mary Dozier, L. Cue and Lara Barnett Role of Attachment Organization in TreatmentAttachment Injuries in Couple Relationships - Susan Johnson, Judy Makinen and John Millikin A New Perspective on Impasses in Couple TherapyDisorganized Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder - Jeremy Holmes A Clinical PerspectiveTrauma, Dissociation and Disorganized Attachment - Giovanni Liotti Three Strands of a Single Braid Randomized Controlled Trial of Outpatient Mentalization-Based Treatment versus Structured Clinical Management for Borderline Personality Disorder - Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy

"This compilation of scholarly articles on the Attachment Theory will certainly interest mental health professionals in Asia. The wealth of information can assist them in their clinical work as they grapple with psychological issues in their busy clinics. All the authors in the book are from both sides of the Atlantic and I am sure the editors are cognizant that the 21st century is the Pacific Century and will be thinking about a Chinese edition with views from Asian psychotherapists about the Attachment Theory." Professor EE-Heok Kwa, National University of Singapore "This work is an absolute tour de force. It is the most comprehensive (indeed the definitive) account of attachment theory, science and practice. It includes an immensely valuable analysis of the ethological and psychoanalytical origins and this movement, which has had such an immense impact on the mental health sciences of our time, and of all the successive stages in and aspects of its development. The six volumes cover absolutely everything, from infant and child work to adult psychiatry, from mentalization to affect regulation and beyond. Its introduction to the currently unfolding vistas in the neuroscience of attachment is particularly exciting. Surely this is a via regia to the best possible psychiatry of the future - a psychiatry which is simultaneously psychological and biological, both clinical and empirical, humane and rigourous."Professor Mark Solms , University of Cape Town and Co-Chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society "This six-volume collection provides a bird-eye view of "Attachment Theory", a key concept of developmental psychology and psychiatry. Starting from selected articles of the pioneer John Bowlby, it describes the impact as well as the critiques of the original work, and covers all areas of diverse extension of this theory. This 21st- century look at Attachment theory also points to important remaining questions of this field, and is highly recommended to the next generations of clinicians, psychologists and neuroscience researchers."Kumi O Kuroda, MD PhD, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan