Attachment Theory and Research

TOMMIE FORSLUND, Psychologist, PhD, is a researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University; and a researcher at SUF Resource Center, Region Uppsala, Sweden. He is a coder of the Strange Situation Procedure, author of an international consensus statement regarding attachment theory and research, and winner of The Society in Emotion and Attachment Studies dissertation award “Excellence in Attachment Research”. ROBBIE DUSCHINSKY, PhD, is University Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences in the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge; and Director of Studies and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College. He is the author of Cornerstones of Attachment Research (2020) and, with Kate White, co-editor of Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (2019).

Introduction 1
Tommie Forslund and Robbie Duschinsky

1 Separation Anxiety 11
John Bowlby

2 Anxiety, Stress, and Homeostasis 34
John Bowlby

3 Attachment 46
Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

4 Love as Attachment: The Integration of Three Behavioral Systems 74
Phillip R. Shaver, Cindy Hazan, and Donna Bradshaw

5 Relationships, Self, and Individual Adaptation 91
L. Alan Sroufe

6 Disorganized/Disoriented Infant Behavior in the Strange Situation, Lapses in the Monitoring of Reasoning and Discourse during the Parent’s Adult Attachment Interview, and Dissociative States 108
M. Main and E. Hesse

7 The Prototype Hypothesis and the Origins of Attachment Working Models: Adult Relationships with Parents and Romantic Partners 132
Gretchen Owens, Judith A. Crowell, Helen Pan, Dominique Treboux, Elizabeth O’Connor, and Everett Waters

8 Dynamics of Romantic Love: Comments, Questions, and Future Directions 144
Phillip R. Shaver

9 Integrating Temperament and Attachment: The Differential Susceptibility Paradigm 164
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

10 Annual Research Review: Attachment Disorders in Early Childhood: Clinical Presentation, Causes, Correlates, and Treatment 184
Charles H. Zeanah and Mary Margaret Gleason

11 Attachment Disorders Versus More Common Problems in Looked After and Adopted Children: Comparing Community and Expert Assessments 202
Matt Woolgar and Emma Baldock

12 Attachment in the Early Life Course: Meta-Analytic Evidence for Its Role in Socioemotional Development 211
Ashley M. Groh, R. M. Pasco Fearon, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, and Glenn I. Roisman

13 Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up: Addressing the Needs of Infants and Toddlers Exposed to Inadequate or Problematic Caregiving 220
Mary Dozier and Kristin Bernard

14 Children’s Multiple Attachment Relationships and Representations in Different Family Contexts 228
Fabien Bacro, Tommie Forslund, and Pehr Granqvist

15 New Correlates of Disorganization from a West-African Dataset, and Shared Rhythmic Touch as a Hidden Pathway to Infant Attachment Security 240
Mary McMahan True

Index 259