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The emergence of the disorganized/disoriented (D) attachment classification, 1979-1982.
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- Subjective Cognitive Decline, Inter-Personal Attachment Style and Relationship Quality.Journal of general and family medicine · 2025Article
- The revised Psychosis Attachment Measure: further psychometric evidence.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Disorganized attachment behaviors in infancy as predictors of brain morphology and peer rejection in late childhood.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Current Perspectives on the Management of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Early Education.Psychology research and behavior management · 2020Review
- Conceptual Analysis: A Social Neuroscience Approach to Interpersonal Interaction in the Context of Disruption and Disorganization of Attachment (NAMDA).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Attachment and reflective functioning in children with somatic symptom disorders and disruptive behavior disorders.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Disorganized attachment and defense: exploring John Bowlby's unpublished reflections.Attachment & human development · 2018Article
- The infant disorganised attachment classification: "Patterning within the disturbance of coherence".Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers.Attachment & human development · 2017Review
- Toward an architecture of attachment disorganization: John Bowlby's published and unpublished reflections.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2017Review
- Infant disorganized attachment: Clarifying levels of analysis.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2017Review
- Wait Up!: Attachment and Sovereign Power.International journal of politics, culture, and society · 2015Article
- Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context.History of the human sciencesArticle
- Parent-Child Attachment: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis.SAGE open nursingReview
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Abstract
This article examines the emergence of the concept of infant disorganized/disoriented attachment, drawing on published and archival texts and interviews. Since this new classification was put forward by Main and Solomon (1986), "disorganized/disoriented attachment" has become an important concept in clinical and social intervention contexts. Yet whereas Main and Solomon have often been misunderstood to have introduced disorganized/disoriented attachment in order to produce an exhaustive, categorical system of infant classifications, this article will suggest quite a different account. Attention will be paid to the emergence of disorganized attachment as a classification out of results and reflections in the late 1970s regarding the limits of an alarmed infant's capacities for maintaining behavioral and attentional avoidance. In contrasting this interpretation of Main and Solomon's work with current, widespread misunderstandings, the article will critically examine tendencies that have supported the reification and misapplication of the concept of disorganized/disoriented attachment.
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