Robbie Duschinsky is Senior University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. With Kate White he is the co-editor of Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (Routledge). His study of attachment research has been supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust. As Head of the Applied Social Science Group within the Primary Care Unit, he leads a team conducting research on the development and contexts of mental illness in children and families. He has also published widely on the sociology of childhood.

• 1: Introduction 2: John Bowlby and the Tavistock Separation Research Unit 3: Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation Procedure 4: Mary Main, Erik Hesse and the Berkeley Social Development study 5: Alan Sroufe, Byron Egeland and the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation 6: Phillip Shaver, Mario Mikulincer and the Experiences in Close Relationships scale 7: Conclusion

Recommended. All readers.

Robbie Duschinsky is Senior University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. With Kate White he is the co-editor of Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (Routledge). His study of attachment research has been supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust. As Head of the Applied Social Science Group within the Primary Care Unit, he leads a team conducting research on the development and contexts of mental illness in children and families. He has also published widely on the sociology of childhood.

• 1: Introduction 2: John Bowlby and the Tavistock Separation Research Unit 3: Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation Procedure 4: Mary Main, Erik Hesse and the Berkeley Social Development study 5: Alan Sroufe, Byron Egeland and the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation 6: Phillip Shaver, Mario Mikulincer and the Experiences in Close Relationships scale 7: Conclusion

Recommended. All readers.

Robbie Duschinsky is Senior University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. With Kate White he is the co-editor of Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (Routledge). His study of attachment research has been supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust. As Head of the Applied Social Science Group within the Primary Care Unit, he leads a team conducting research on the development and contexts of mental illness in children and families. He has also published widely on the sociology of childhood.

• 1: Introduction 2: John Bowlby and the Tavistock Separation Research Unit 3: Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation Procedure 4: Mary Main, Erik Hesse and the Berkeley Social Development study 5: Alan Sroufe, Byron Egeland and the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation 6: Phillip Shaver, Mario Mikulincer and the Experiences in Close Relationships scale 7: Conclusion

Recommended. All readers.