ReviewClinical child psychology and psychiatry2017
Toward an architecture of attachment disorganization: John Bowlby's published and unpublished reflections.
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- Attachment representations in Afghan refugees undergoing psychological treatment: a pilot study.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- A narrative on the neurobiological roots of attachment-system functioning.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues.Attachment & human development · 2022Article
- Caregiver-child separation during tuberculosis hospitalisation: a qualitative study in South Africa.South African journal of psychology = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir sielkunde · 2021Article
- The modulation of facial mimicry by attachment tendencies and their underlying affiliation motives in 3-year-olds: An EMG study.PloS one · 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- Disorganized attachment and defense: exploring John Bowlby's unpublished reflections.Attachment & human development · 2018Article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
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Abstract
This article examines the construct of disorganized attachment originally proposed by Main and Solomon, developing some new conjectures based on inspiration from a largely unknown source: John Bowlby's unpublished texts, housed at the Wellcome Trust Library Archive in London (with permission from the Bowlby family). We explore Bowlby's discussions of disorganized attachment, which he understood from the perspective of ethological theories of conflict behavior. Bowlby's reflections regarding differences among the behaviors used to code disorganized attachment will be used to explore distinctions that may underlie the structure of the current coding system. The article closes with an emphasis on the importance Bowlby placed on Popper's distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification in developmental science.
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