Evolution, experience, and intimate relationships: An attachment perspective on mental health

Journal/Book: Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsyc. 1996; 45: Theaterstrasse 13, Postfach 77, W-37070 Gottingen, Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 147-155.

Abstract: In this article the author begins to integrate different theoretical perspectives in order to develop a more comprehensive model of normative and disordered pathways of development, in which genetic heritage, maturation, and individual differences in experience all play a role in the development of individual differences in adaption. Specifically, differences in early attachment relationships are reconceptualized in terms of learned patterns of processing of cognitive and affective information and learned behavioral strategies for eliciting caregiving from attachment figures. In this model the basic nature of the mind is to be self-correcting so;as to yield increasingly sophisticated and adaptive mental and behavioral patterns.

Note: Article PM Crittenden, Family Relat Inst, 9481 SW 147 St, Miami, FL 33176 USA

Keyword(s): PATTERNS

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