The Organized Categories of Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Flexible Vs. Inflexible Attention Under Attachment-Related Stress

By M. Main. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jon Mills
2. A. Slade
3. Karlen Lyons-Ruth
4. D. Siegel
5. E. Hesse
6. J. Cassidy
7. Matthew J. Dykas
8. S. Hesse

In Social Psychology

1. Jon Mills
2. A. Slade
3. Karlen Lyons-Ruth
4. D. Siegel
5. E. Hesse
6. J. Cassidy
7. S. Hesse
8. Matthew J. Dykas

Citations in the corpus

• Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the transmission gap: A preliminary study (2005, background): “Numerous investigators have replicated these findings in the intervening years, confirming time and again that a mother's capacity to regulate and organize her own thoughts and feelings about relationships with her primary caregivers is linked to her capacity to regulate, organize, and sensitively r”
• Parental reflective functioning: An introduction (2005, positive): “…these AAI data, and thinking about the processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of attachment, and particularly Main’s (1991, 2000) notions of metacognitive monitoring and coherence, that Fonagy and his colleagues began to develop their ideas about mentalization and its…”
• Mindful Awareness, Mindsight, and Neural Integration (2009, background): “In fact, we can propose that when we make sense of our lives—in adult attachment terms when we have developed a coherent attachment narrative (Main, 2000; Siegel, 1999)—we likely are revealing that we’ve achieved a common state of mindful awareness.”
• Attachment and the processing of social information across the life span: theory and evidence. (2011, background): “The idea that individuals can protect themselves from experiencing psychological pain by filtering out social information is long-standing in attachment theory (Bowlby, 1980; see also Fearon & Mansell, 2001; Fraley, Davis, & Shaver, 1998; Main, 2000; Mikulincer et al., 2009; Thompson, 2008) as well ”
• ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: OVERVIEW WITH SUGGESTED APPLICATIONS TO CHILD CUSTODY (2011, background): “This meant that an approach-flight paradox would necessarily emerge, creating a condition of “fright without solution” (Main & Hesse, 1990; Hesse & Main, 2000, 2006)—hence, of course, increasing the likelihood that the infant would exhibit “conflict behaviors” at such times.”
• The Interface Between Attachment and Intersubjectivity: Perspective from the Longitudinal Study of Disorganized Attachment (2007, background): “In contrast, mild maternal rejection of close contact in the home predicted an avoidant attachment strategy, and maternal inconsistency in responding to infant cues predicted an ambivalent attachment strategy (Main, 2000).”
• A Critique of Relational Psychoanalysis. (2005, positive): “Stern’s work dovetails nicely with the recent developments in attachment theory (Cassidy & Shaver, 1999; Hesse & Main, 2000; Main, 2000; Mills, 2004; Solomon & George, 1999) and reciprocal dyadic systems theories derived from infant observation research.”