1st Edition

Behavior and the Development of Representational Models of Attachment Five Methods of Assessment

212 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mary Main’s groundbreaking book, unpublished until now, offers a full account of the methods she developed that revolutionized attachment research, explores her conceptual frameworks and methodologies, including the Adult Attachment Interview and coding systems, and provides essential insights into attachment theory. The book delves into Main’s innovative methods, such as the Adult Attachment... Read more

1. Behavior and the Development of Representational Models of Attachment

Mary Main

2. Procedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented During the Ainsworth Strange Situation

Mary Main and Judith Solomon

3. The Adult Attachment Interview

Carol George, Nancy Kaplan, and Mary Main

4. An Adult Attachment Classification System

Mary Main and Ruth Goldwyn

5. Relationship Representation in Child-Parent Discourse: Instructions for Classifying Seven Central Patterns

Amy Strage and Mary Main

6. Instructions for the Classification of Children's Family Drawings in Terms of Representation of Attachment

Nancy Kaplan and Mary Main

7. Assessments of Child-Parent Attachment at Six Years of Age

Mary Main and Jude Cassidy

Biography

Mary Main (deceased) was Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of California, Berkeley. She was the co-originator of the Adult Attachment Interview (protocol and scoring and classification system). She also collaborated in the development of many other attachment-related methods including infant disorganized attachment, and frightening/frightened behavior.

Robbie Duschinsky is Professor of Social Science & Health at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His books include Developments in Attachment Research (2025) and Cornerstones of Attachment Research (2020).

Erik Hesse is Adjunct Associate Professor (retired), University of California, Berkeley. He collaborated in the discovery and development of methods related to ‘cannot classify’ in the Strange Situation, and frightened/frightening parental behavior.

Kate White is a retired attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and member of The Bowlby Centre, London. She is the Editor Emerita of the journal, Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, she is currently the Series Editor of The Bowlby Centre Monographs, published by Routledge. Her publications include co-editing Trauma and Loss; Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (Routledge, 2019) with Robbie Duschinsky.

Pehr Granqvist is Professor of Psychology at Stockholm University. His research spans attachment theory across the lifespan, with particular focus on attachment measurement, disorganized attachment, and applications. He has contributed widely to both empirical and theoretical advancements in the field.