Scientific study of marital satisfaction attracted widespread attention in the 1990s from
scholars representing diverse orientations and goals. This article highlights key conceptual …

Because there has been relatively little communication and cross-fertilization between the
two major lines of research on adult attachment, one based on coded narrative assessments …

Attachment research has traditionally focused on individual differences in global patterns of
attachment to important others. The current research instead focuses primarily on within …

A central tenet of attachment theory is that a person's attachment pattern in adulthood is a
reflection of his or her attachment history—-beginning with the person's earliest attachment …

The authors propose an interpersonal social-cognitive theory of the self and personality, the
relational self, in which knowledge about the self is linked with knowledge about significant …

This article reviews the research on couple therapy over the last decade. The research
shows that couple therapy positively impacts 70% of couples receiving treatment. The …

Attachment theory is a lifespan developmental theory. According to Bowlby (1969/1982),
human attachments play a “vital role... from the cradle to the grave”(p. 208). Ainsworth …

This presentation focuses on the disorganized/disoriented (Group D) categories of infant,
child, and adult attachment. The infant D category is assigned on the basis of interruptions …

John Briere and Catherine Scott′ s Principles of Trauma Therapy, Third Edition is both
comprehensive in scope and highly practical in application. This best selling text provides a …

This edited volume addresses key issues relating to the concept of self, an increasingly
researched area of social psychology. The self-concept consists of three fundamental self …