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Attachment Science & Psychotherapy - Professor Jeremy Holmes

The Weekend University

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The Importance of the Adult Attachment Interview

Mary Meen developed the adult attachment interview because she wanted to find some way, we have this strange situation which would describe attachment patterns in one to two year olds. She said, well, how are we going to measure attachment in adult life? And so she developed the essentially a kind of open-ended questionnaire. But what she found was that it wasn't exactly the content, the adversity itself that matters. It's the way that a person talks about their experience and they discriminated between securely attached infants and insecurely attached infants.

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