Attachment across the life cycle / edited by Colin Murray Parkes, Joan Stevenson-Hinde, and Peter Marris.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: The Nature of attachment: The Roots and growing points of attachment theory / Inge Bretherton -- Attachments and other affectional bonds across the life cycle / Mary D. Salter Ainsworth -- Perspectives on attachment / Robert A. Hinde and Joan Stevenson-Hinde -- The Attachment bond in childhood and adulthood / Robert S. Weiss -- The Social construction of uncertainty / Peter Marris -- Part II: Patterns of attachment: Attachment quality as an organizer of emotional and behavioral responses in a longitudinal perspective / Klaus E. Grossmann and Karin Grossmann --Attachment patterns in children of depressed mothers / Marian Radke-Yarrow -- Metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive moonitoring, and singular (coherent) vs. multiple (incoherent) model of attachment: findings and directions for future research / Mary Main -- Effects on infant-mother attachment of mother's unresolved loss of an attachment figure, or other traumatic experience / Mary D. Salter Ainsworth and Carolyn Eichberg -- Part III: Clinical applications: Failure of the holding relationship: some effects of physical rejection on the child's attachment and inner experience / Juliet Hopkins -- The Application of attachment theory to understanding and treatment in family therapy / John Byng-Hall -- Insecure attachment and agoraphobia / Giovanni Liotti -- Loss of parent in childhood, attachment style, and depression in adulthood / Tirril Harris and Antonia Bifulco -- Attachment, bonding, and psychiatric problems after bereavement in adult life / Colin Murray Parkes -- Postscript / John Bowlby.

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Explains the observation that many of the common psychiatric and social problems of adult life have their roots in the early relationship between the child and its mother. Draws together recent theoretical contributions from Europe and the USA.

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