At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such diverse clinical topics as child abuse, borderline personality disorder, dissociation, adolescent suicide, treatment responsiveness, false memory, narrative competence, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.Introduction - Susan Goldberg I. Origins and Context of Attachment Theory Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall : John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Psychoanalysis - Jeremy Holmes The Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Inge Bretherton The Evolution and History of Attachment Research and Theory - Klaus E. Grossmann The Developmental Perspectives of Attachment and Psychoanalytic Theory - Morris Eagle II. Contemporary Research The Origins of Attachment Security: Classical and Contextual Determinants - Jay Belsky, Kate Rosenberger, and KeithCrnic Infuence of Attachment Theory on Ethological Studies of Biobehavioral Development in Nonhuman Primates - Stephen J. Suomi Hidden Regulators: Implications for a New Understanding of Attachment, Separation, and Loss - Myron A. Hofer Part III: Clinical Significance and Applications of Attachment Attachment, the Reflective Self, and Borderline States: The Predictive Specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and Pathological Emotional Development - Peter Fonagy, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Tom Leigh, Roger Kennedy, Gretta Mattoon, and Mary Target Child Maltreatment and Attachment Organization: Implications for Interventiolă