Attachment Reading List

Bowlby, J (1988) A secure base: parent-child attachment and healthy human development. New York: Basic Books.

Byng - Hall, J. (1995)  Rewriting Family Scripts.  London: Guilford Press

Byng-Hall, J. (1995) ‘Creating a secure base: some implications of attachment theory for family therapy’ . Family Process, 34: 45-58

Cassidy, J.  and. Shaver, P.R.  ( 1999)  (Eds.) Handbook of Attachment. London: Guilford

Crittenden, P. M. (2006). A dynamic-maturational model of attachment. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 27, 105-115.

Dallos, R. ( 2006) Attachment Narrative Therapy. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill 

Dallos, R. and Vetere, A. (2009) Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives. Open University Press/McGraw Hill 

Dallos, R ( 2019)  Don’t Blame the Parents: Positive Intentions, Sctipts and Change I Family Therapy,  Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill

Diamond, G. S. and Siqueland, L. (1998) Emotions, attachments and the relational reframe.  Journal of Structural and Strategic Therapy, 17: 36-50

Fonagy, P., Steele, M. and Steele, H. (1991) Maternal representations pf attachment during pregnancy predicts the organisation of infant - mother attachment at one year of age. Child Development., 62: 880-893

George, C. Kaplan, N. and Main, M. (1985) The Berkeley Adult Attachment Interview. Unpublished Protocol. Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA.

Hazan, C.  and Shaver, P. ( 1987) Romantic love conceptualised as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  52: 511-524

Johnson, S. ( 2003) Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy . London: Guilford Press

Main, K., Kaplan, N. and Cassidy, J. (1985) ‘Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: a move to the level of representation’. In I. Bretherton and E. Water (eds), Monographs of the Society for Research and Child Development, Serial No. 209.50: Nos1-2. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press

Mikulincer, M., Shaver, P.R. and Pereg, D. (2003) ‘ Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamic, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment Related Strategies. Motivation and Emotion. 27(2): 77-102

Oppenheim, D.  and Waters, H.S. (1985)  Narrative processes and Attachment Representations: Issues of development and assessment. In:  I. Bretherton and E. Waters (eds) Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50: (1-2) Serial No. 209, p. 197 – 21

Ringer, R. & Crittenden, P. M. (2006). Eating disorders and attachment: The effects of hidden family processes on eating disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 14, 1-12.

Ward, M.J. and Carlson, E.A. (1995) Associations among adult attachment representations, maternal sensitivity, and infant-mother attachment in a sample of adolescent mothers, Child Development, 66: 69-79 

Waters, E., Vaughn, B.E., Posada, G. and Kondo-Ikemura, K. (1995) Caregiving, cultural, and cognitive perspectives on secure-base behaviour and working models: New growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 60 (2-3 , Serial No.244)