Danger, Development and Adaptation

Patricia McKinsey Crittenden PhD is a developmental psychopathologist who worked with Mary Ainsworth to develop the DMM. She pioneered video-feedback with maltreating mothers in the early-1970s, ran a family support centre, trained as a behavioural and family systems therapist, was Director of the Miami Child Protection Team, and has been a family court consultant. In 2004, she received a European Family Therapy Association Career Achievement Award. She has published more than 100 empirical papers and chapters. Her books include: Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment (2015); Attachment and Family Systems Therapy (2014); and Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Model (2011) (the final two as co-author).

'This volume contains a selection of the seminal works of Patricia Crittenden, one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of attachment theory. Crittenden integrates the fields of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology in her thought-provoking and insightful research on attachment in normal and atypical development. Her ground-breaking work on attachment and child maltreatment stimulated the field to embark on translational research to prevent attachment insecurity and to promote resilient functioning'- Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., McKnight Presidential Chair, William Harris Professor and Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota; 'Contains a selection of the seminal works of Patricia Crittenden, one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of attachment theory': Professor Dante Cicchetti, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. 'A "must" for each trainer, therapist, researcher or student'- Professor Rodolfo de Bernart, President, IASA (from the Foreword).