ArticleThe Psychoanalytic study of the child1997
The personal origins of attachment theory. An interview with Mary Salter Ainsworth. Interview by Peter L. Rudnytsky.
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- Interventions from pregnancy to two years after birth for parents experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder and/or with childhood experience of maltreatment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- The relationship between parental-child attachment consistency and shyness in adolescents with depressive disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Pre- and postnatal maternal depressive symptoms associated with local connectivity of the left amygdala in 5-year-olds.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Nature, Nurture, and Attachment: Implications in Light of Expanding Definitions of Parenthood.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2018Review
- Attachment styles and psychopathology among adolescent children of parents with bipolar disorder.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2015Article
- Loneliness in infancy: Harry Harlow, John Bowlby and issues of separation.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2008Article
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Abstract
This interview took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 20, 1991, at the home of Mary Salter Ainsworth. One of the foremost exponents of attachment theory and a colleague of the late John Bowlby, Dr. Ainsworth is best known for her innovative Strange Situation procedure, an experimental method to test the strength and styles of infants' attachments to their primary caregiver. She is the author of numerous papers and books, including Infancy in Uganda: Infant Care and the Growth of Love (1967), Patterns of Attachment (1978), and, with John Bowlby, Child Care and the Growth of Love (2nd ed., 1965).
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