Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview

528 Pages·2008·2.29 MB·English

by  Howard Steele

Clinical Applications
of the Adult Attachment Interview

Clinical
Applications of the
Adult Attachment
Interview
Edited by
HOWARD STEELE
MIRIAM STEELE
Foreword by JUNE SROUFE
Afterword by DEBORAH JACOBVITZ
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and in dedication to our children—
Gabi, Joe, and Miki
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About the Editors
Howard Steele, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
in Psychology at the New School for Social Research, where he is Codirector
(withMiriamSteele)oftheCenterforAttachmentResearch.Heisseniorand
founding editor of the journal Attachment and Human Development and is
the author of more than 60 journal articles and book chapters on the impact
of attachment, loss, trauma, and emotion understanding across the lifespan
and across generations.
MiriamSteele,PhD,isAssociateProfessorandAssistantDirectoroftheDoc-
toral Program in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research,
where she is Codirector (with Howard Steele) of the Center for Attachment
Research.Dr.SteeletrainedasapsychoanalystattheAnnaFreudCentre.She
initiatedtheLondonParent–ChildProject,amajorlongitudinalstudyofinter-
generational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal
attachmentresearchinthecontextofchildmaltreatmentandadoption,about
which she publishes and lectures widely.
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Contributors
Massimo Ammaniti, MD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology,
University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Kay Asquith, MSc, Anna Freud Centre, London, United Kingdom
Heidi Neufeld Bailey, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, PhD, Center for Child and Family Studies,
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Tessa Baradon, MA, Anna Freud Centre, London, United Kingdom
Johanna Bick, BA, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware
Margo Candelaria, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Growth and Nutrition Division,
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Dante Cicchetti, PhD, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester,
New York; Institute of Child Development and Department of Psychiatry, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
John F. Clarkin, PhD, Personality Disorders Institute, Department of Psychiatry,
New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York,
New York; Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York,
New York
Marylene Cloitre, PhD, Child Study Center, Institute for Trauma and Stress,
New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
Judith A. Crowell, MD, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University Medical Center,
Stony Brook, New York
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viii Contributors
Nino Dazzi, PhD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, University
of Rome, Rome, Italy
Carey Anne DeOliveira, PhD, Child and Parent Resource Institute, London,
Ontario, Canada
Diana Diamond, PhD, Department of Psychology, The City College and Graduate
Center, City University of New York, New York, New York; Personality Disorders
Institute, Department of Psychiatry, New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell
Medical College, New York, New York; Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
and Psychoanalysis, New York University, New York, New York
Mary Dozier, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware
Brent Finger, BA, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Karin Gleason, PhD, Riverside Educational Services, London, Ontario, Canada
Sonja Gojman de Millán, PhD, International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
and Seminario de Sociopsicóanálisis A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
Ruth Goldwyn, PhD, Academic Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Sydney Hans, PhD, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
Stuart T. Hauser, MD, PhD, Judge Baker Children’s Center and Department of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Christoph M. Heinicke, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Christine Reiner Hess, PhD, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy
Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Erik Hesse, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, California; Center for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University,
Leiden, The Netherlands
Saul Hillman, MSc, Anna Freud Centre, London, United Kingdom
Jill Hodges, PhD, Brain and Behavioral Sciences Unit, Institute for Child Health,
London, United Kingdom; Anna Freud Centre, London, United Kingdom;
Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Great Ormond Street
Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Tord Ivarsson, MD, PhD, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Queen
Silvia Children’s Hospital, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden; Centre for Child
and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway
Deborah Jacobvitz, PhD, Department of Human Ecology, College of Natural
Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Contributors ix
Amanda Jones, DSysPsych, NHS Parent–Infant Mental Health Service, North East
London Mental Health Trust, London, United Kingdom
Jeanne Kaniuk, BA, Coram Family, London, United Kingdom
Otto F. Kernberg, MD, Personality Disorders Institute, Borderline Personality
Disorder Resource Center, Department of Psychiatry, New York–Presbyterian
Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University, New York, New York
Lauren A. Killeen, MS, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania
Mónica Susana Levine, LCSW, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral
Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Kenneth N. Levy, PhD, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, Pennsylvania; Personality Disorders Institute, Department of
Psychiatry, New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College,
New York, New York
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mary Main, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, California
Joel F. McClough, PhD, Child Study Center, Institute for Trauma and Stress,
New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
Sharon Melnick, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Salvador Millán, MD, Seminario de Sociopsicóanálisis A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
Wendy Miller, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Growth and Nutrition Division,
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Greg Moran, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada
Sergio Muscetta, MD, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, University
of Rome, Rome, Italy
Melissa O’Connell, PhD, Child Development Program, Children’s National Medical
Center, Washington, DC
Matthew Patrick, MD, Tavistock Clinic, London, United Kingdom
David R. Pederson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada
Fred A. Rogosch, PhD, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York
June Sroufe, PhD, private practice, Minneapolis, Minnesota
x Contributors
Howard Steele, PhD, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research,
New York, New York
Miriam Steele, PhD, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research,
New York, New York
K. Chase Stovall-McClough, PhD, Child Study Center, Institute for Trauma and
Stress, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
Douglas M. Teti, PhD, Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Sheree L. Toth, PhD, Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, PhD, Center for Child and Family Studies,
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Frank E. Yeomans, MD, Personality Disorders Institute, Department of Psychiatry,
New York–Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York,
New York