Attachment in Adults

Reflecting the emerging understanding of the significance of attachment in adult life, this comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of recent research on adult attachment from a diversity of perspectives. Throughout, contributors apply the construct of attachment to a conceptual and empirical understanding of relatedness across the life span, exploring fundamental issues of human interaction, defining theoretical domains, and raising new questions about this compelling field of study. The book opens with an overview of the structure and function of adult attachment. Issues central to attachment in adults - conceptualization, measurement, utility, and applicability to various stages and problems - are outlined and defined. Part II deals with broad theoretical and conceptual questions that affect adult attachment. Chapters here address normative and disturbed life-span development; examine longitudinal studies of childhood attachment; explore the relationship between attachment theory and object relations theory; and discuss the physiological bases of attachment. Also offered is an overview of measurement, with critiques of some of the major scales in current use and the presentation of a new scale for assessing adult attachment. The role of attachment at various stages of the life cycle is the focus of Part III. Beginning with relationships of adolescents to parents and peers, the book proceeds to examine love relationships of late adolescence and early adulthood, and then attachment in marriage. The ways in which attachment style affects courtship and tendencies toward jealousy and romantic obsession are explored, as are the ways attachment relationships may be affected byimportant life transitions. In the final section, contributors relate attachment to psychopathology and psychotherapy, through studies of suicidal ideation and impulse; parental bonding and depressive disorders; and personality disorders. In the discussion of attachment theory's applic

ISBN 0898625475   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780898625479 (What's this?)   Pages 360 Publisher Guilford Publications   Volumes 1 Imprint Guilford Publications   Weight (grammes) 658 Format Hardback   Published in New York Publication date 07 Jul 1994   Height (mm) 241 Non-book description xxi, 360 p. :   Width (mm) 165 Library of Congress BF575.A86A   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 616.858   Academic level Postgraduate, General

1		The Structure and Function of Adult Attachment by William H. Berman and Michael B. Sperling		1
2		Continuity of Attachment across the Life Span by Julie C. Rothbard and Phillip R. Shaver		31
3		Internal Working Models and the Representational World in Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theories by Diana Diamond and Sidney J. Blatt		72
4		Physiological Aspects of Adult Attachment by Martin Reite and Maria L. Boccia		98
5		Assessing Adult Attachment by Judith A. Feenry and Patricia Noller and Mary Hanrahan		128
6		Parental Attachment, Peer Relations, and Dysphoria in Adolescence by Joanna Batgos and Bonnie J. Leadbeater		155
7		Anxious Romantic Attachment in Adult Relationships by Carl G. Hindy and J. Conrad Schwarz		179
8		Attachment in Marital Relations by William H. Berman and Lauren Marcus and Ellen Raynes Berman		204
9		Attachment Relationships and Life Transitions: An Expectancy Model by Mary J. Levitt and Sherrilyn Coffman and Nathalie Guacci-Franco and Stephen C. Loveless		232
10		Attachment in Adulthood and Aging by Toni C. Antonucci		256
11		Suicidal Behavior and Attachment: A Developmental Model by Kenneth S. Adam		275
12		Parental Bonding and Depressive Disorders by Gordon Parker		299
13		Psychotherapy Strategies for Insecure Attachment in Personality Disorders by Malcolm West and Adrienne Keller		313
14		Representations of Attachment and Psychotherapeutic Change by Michael B. Sperling and Lisa Sandow Lyons		331
		Index		349

"Attachment theory is a very hot topic now, with application to developmental psychology, social/personality psychology, clinical psychology, and relationships research. The editors have collected some of the best thinkers and researchers on the topic and they present an outstanding group of examples of the range and application of the attachment approach. This is a book that, because of its life-span approach, will have something for everyone interested in the social side of human experience." --Steve Duck, Ph.D., University of Iowa "The editors have done an impressive job. This book is a wide-ranging and provocative volume that extends various facets of attachment theory and research to adult relationships and psychotherapy. Especially valuable is the integration of Bowlby's theorizing on loss into a deeper understanding of insecure attachment and therapeutic change." --Inge Bretherton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a wonderfully diverse and substantiv

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