The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment

Fonagy, Peter; Steele, Miriam; Steele, Howard; S. Moran, George; Higgitt, Anna

doi:10.1002/1097-0355(199123)12:3<201::aid-imhj2280120307>3.0.co;2-7

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The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment

Published in Infant Mental Health Journal • Jan 1, 1991

Authors:

Peter Fonagy

Miriam Steele

Howard Steele

Abstract

Epidemiologists and psychoanalysts have been equally concerned about the intergenera-tional concordance of disturbed patterns of attachment. Mary Main's introduction of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) has provided the field with an empirical tool for examining the concordance of parental and in...

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Concordance

Strange situation

Psychology

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