Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Introduction / Susan Golberg Pt. 1. Origins and Context of Attachment Theory -- Ch. 2. "Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall": John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Psychoanalysis / Jeremy Holmes -- Ch. 3. The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth / Inge Bretherton -- Ch. 4. The Evolution and History of Attachment Research and Theory / Klaus E. Grossmann -- Ch. 5. The Developmental Perspectives of Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theory / Morris Eagle -- Pt. 2. Contemporary Research -- Ch. 6. The Origins of Attachment Security: "Classical" and Contextual Determinants / Jay Belsky, Kate Rosenberger, and KeithCrnic -- Ch. 7. Infuence of Attachment Theory on Ethological Studies of Biobehavioral Development in Nonhuman Primates / Stephen J. Suomi -- Ch. 8. Hidden Regulators: Implications for a New Understanding of Attachment, Separation, and Loss / Myron A. Hofer -- Pt. 3. Clinical Significance and Applications of Attachment -- Ch. 9. Attachment, the Reflective Self, and Borderline States: The Predictive Specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and Pathological Emotional Development / Peter Fonagy, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Tom Leigh, Roger Kennedy, Gretta Mattoon, and Mary Target -- Ch. 10. Child Maltreatment and Attachment Organization: Implications for Intervention /
Dante Cicchetti and Sheree L.Toth -- Ch. 11. Attachment Organization and Vulnerability to Loss,Separation, and Abuse in Disturbed Adolescents / Kenneth S. Adam, Adrienne E. Sheldon Keller, and Malcolm West -- Ch. 12. Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment in the Psychotherapy of the Dissociative Disorders / Giovanni Liotti -- Pt. 4. New Directions in Attachment Theory -- Ch. 13. Attachment and Psychopathology / Patricia McKinsey Crittenden -- Ch. 14. Recent Studies in Attachment: Overviews, with Selected Implications for Clinical Work / Mary Main.

At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such diverse clinical topics as child abuse, borderline personality disorder, dissociation, adolescent suicide, treatment responsiveness, false memory, narrative competence, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.