An attachment perspective on psychopathology

In recent years, attachment theory, which was originally formulated to describe and explain infant-parent emotional bonding, has been applied to the study of adolescent and adult romantic relationships and then to the study of psychological processes, such as interpersonal functioning, emotion regul...

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Published in:World psychiatry 2012-02, Vol.11 (1), p.11-15
Main Authors: Mikulincer, Mario, Shaver, Phillip R.
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