The "attachment" metaphor has labeled a process, of which infant protests during maternal departures have served as a presumably.unlearned index. Within social-eonditioning theory, if. and how, such infant protests could be acquired was examined by (a) providing stimuli to the child via routine maternal behaviors (visual, verbal and movement orientations) during mothers' departures and (b) moth...

Early adverse caregiving experiences constitute an important risk factor for the development of disorganized attachment in infancy, especially extreme insensitivity and frightening behavior associated with an unresolved loss or trauma. Using existing measures for frightening parenting and disrupted communication, we developed a new measure assessing Disconnected and extremely Insensitive Parent...

In this article, recent research on parenting behaviors associated with infant attachment disorganization is summarized and applied to a parent-infant psychotherapy case. Both hostile/self-referential and helpless-fearful patterns of parentingare described and viewed theoretically as alternate aspects of a single hostile-helpless internal working model of attachment relationships. The case mate...

There is a growing consensus among psychologists, midwives, lactation consultants, physicians and others who are concerned with the early perinatal period that there is a “sensitive period” (Odent, Klauss) immediately following a physiologically normal birth. During this brief period a very unique hormonal milieu, orchestrated by the birth itself, drives maternal-infant interactions. These inte...

Top Parental Affective Communication Patterns Related to Infant Disorganization Hostile or Helpless Profiles of Parenting Understanding Intergenerational Cycles: The Developmental Emergence of Controlling Forms of Attachment Behavior Hostile/Helpless Internal Working Models of Relationships Conclusion References Since the initial identification of disorganized and controlling forms of attachmen...

Background & aim: Aggression is a phenomenon that causes irreversible damage to a community. Psychodynamic theory suggests that aggression is rooted in early relationships with family members, especially mother. According to this theory, infant-mother relationship is a major predictor of an individual’s behavior from childhood to adulthood. This study aimed to investigate the correlation betwee...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Adult security attachment state Parenting motivation Infant faces Reward Liking Wanting This study aimed to systematically examine the coherence in the motivation of parenting with the security attachment state of adults. A total of 228 childless participants (126 men, 102 women) first completed a self-report questionnaire including the State Adult Attachment Mea...

BACKGROUND Maternal love, which may be the core of maternal behavior, is essential for the mother-infant attachment relationship and is important for the infant's development and mental health. However, little has been known about these neural mechanisms in human mothers. We examined patterns of maternal brain activation in response to infant cues using video clips. METHODS We performed funct...

Infant temperament, parenting factors, and aspects of mother-infant interactions have all been demonstrated to influence the early attachment relationship. It has been suggested since attachment is multiply determined, these factors should be evaluated cumulatively as predictors of attachment security. This study examined contributions of child and parent characteristics to infant attachment se...