Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies

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

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Offending and attachment: The relationship between interpersonal awareness and offending in a prison population with psychiatric disorder (2004, background): “A fifth category, Cannot Classify (CC) has also been described (Hesse & Main, 2000).”
An Attachment Theoretical Framework for Personality Disorders (2015, background): “Unresolved/disorganized individuals exhibit lapses in monitoring reasoning or speech when discussing events such as loss or trauma; these lapses are thought to reflect intrusions from contradictory internal working models (Hesse & Main, 2000), indicating a disorganized attachment pattern.”
TRAUMA, DISSOCIATION, AND DISORGANIZED ATTACHMENT: THREE STRANDS OF A SINGLE BRAID (2004, background): “Both AAI transcripts that are classified " unresolved as to traumas " and infant disorganized attachment behavior bear close resemblance to clinical phenomena usually regarded as indicative of dissociation (Hesse & Main, 2000; Main & Morgan, 1996).”
Attachment security and disorganization in maltreating and high-risk families: A series of meta-analyses (2010, background): “…for protection in times of stress and anxiety, is at the same time the source of fright, whether this attachment figure is the perpetrator, a potential perpetrator (in cases of sibling abuse), or failing to protect the child against the perpetrator (see Figure 2; Hesse & Main, 1999, 2000, 2006).”
The Developmental Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Early Attachment Relationships: A Theory and Some Evidence (2003, background): “Hence early maltreatment, which is associated with extremely compromised (disorganized) attachment (Crittenden, 1997; Hesse and Main, 2000), is most likely to undermine the development of cortical structures key to mentalization.”
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.”
Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis, Personality Development, and Psychopathology (2003, background): “Hesse and Main (2000) discuss disorganized attachment as related to parental unresolved fear—a fear that is transmitted through parental behavior that appears as frightened or frightening to the infant.”
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.”