This up-to-date volume effectively links attachment theory and method to clinical understanding, exploring recent advances that have significantly enhanced our ability to explain and predict psychopathology. Contributing authors, comprising leading international experts, present research into a relatively recently discovered form of attachment-- the disorganized pattern--as well as new technologies for classifying attachment security beyond infancy, and apply these innovations to pioneering studies of atypical populations. Exploring attachment processes in diverse samples including divorced mothers, chronically ill infants, Romanian adoptees, children of women with anxiety disorders, and individuals with a variety of psychiatric disorders, chapters provide invaluable clinical insights and highlight areas of theoretical innovation and controversy. Table of Contents
I. General Considerations
1. Attachment and Psychopathology: From Laboratory to Clinic, Leslie Atkinson
2. Clinical Implications of Attachment Concepts: Retrospect and Prospect, Michael Rutter
3. Patterns of Attachment and Sexual Behavior: Risk of Dysfunction versus Opportunity for Creative Integration, Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
II. Risk and Prediction
4. Attachment Networks in Postdivorce Families: The Maternal Perspective, Inge Bretherton, Reghan Walsh, Molly Lependorf, and Heather Georgeson
5. Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment: A Move to the Contextual Level, Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
6. Attachment and Childhood Behavior Problems in Normal, At-Risk, and Clinical Samples, Susan Goldberg
7. The Role of Attachment Processes in Externalizing Psychopathology in Young Children, Mark T. Greenberg, Michelle DeKlyen, Matthew L. Speltz, and Marya C. Endriga
8. Crime and Attachment: Morality, Disruptive Behavior, Borderline Personality Disorder, Crime, and Their Relationships to Security of Attachment, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Tom Leigh, Alice Levinson, and Roger Kennedy
III. In the Clinic
9. Toddlers' Internalization of Maternal Attributions as a Factor in Quality of Attachment, Alicia F. Lieberman
10. Intergenerational Transmission of Relationship Psychopathology: A Mother-Infant Case Study, Charles H. Zeanah, Elizabeth Finley-Belgrad, and Diane Benoit from the publisher's website |
