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Attachment and personality disorders: exploring maladaptive developmental pathways
- Author:
- PAGE Timothy F.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 18(5), October 2001, pp.313-334.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Recent theorising and research from an attachment perspective has begun to trace linkages between attachment in childhood and the later appearance of personality disorders. This paper contributes to this work by identifying consistencies between descriptions of insecure attachment in childhood provided by Crittenden (1995, 1997a, 1997b) and descriptions of personality disorders provided by Millon (1996). Implications for clinical assessment and intervention are discussed. In particular, understanding of dimensional characteristics shared by attachment organization and personality disorders may shed light on the differential use of primarily cognitive-behavioral and primarily psychodynamic clinical interventions.
Attachment, resilience and prevention
- Author:
- SVANBERG Per O.G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 7(6), December 1998, pp.543-578.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article outlines relevant research in attachment and development psychopathology and proposes the approach as an epistemological framework underpinning the development of primary prevention and early intervention with regard to mental health problems. The article argues that secure attachment, which can be established in the very early years of the child's life, will provide the necessary resilience for the child to cope with many adverse life events as an adult without developing psychological or psychiatric symptomatology.
Multiplex versus multiple taxonomy of paraphilia: case example
- Authors:
- LEHNE Gregory A., MONEY John
- Journal article citation:
- Sexual Abuse a Journal of Research and Treatment, 15(1), January 2003, pp.61-72.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Several different paraphilias are presently diagnosed in some individuals whereas a more parsimonious taxonomy would be that of one multiplex paraphilia. A multiplex paraphilia may be expressed by variations of content at different times in an individual's life or in different situations. The present case example shows the unfolding of a multiplex paraphilia over a lifetime. At age 7 the subject was dressed in public as a girl wearing a diaper as a humiliation for bed-wetting. This experience had 3 paraphilic components that were separately manifested at different times in his life: fetishistic transvestism, pedophilic incest, and infantilism. A multiplex paraphilia taxonomy may lead to improved identification of etiology, prognosis, and treatment of paraphilia.
A strength-based and early relationship approach to infant mental health assessment
- Authors:
- PEREZ Linda M., FEIFER Karen L., NEWMAN Mary C.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 38(5), October 2002, pp.375-389.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This article presents a strength-based assessment process that focuses on infant emotional development within the family context. The assessment model, developed over the past five years within a preventive mental health program, represents a shift from deficit to strength-based principles that are consistent with appropriate developmental practice. The strength-based assessment process presented achieves an understanding of the infant's competencies and areas of need, and considers the negative impact that maternal mental illness has on the infant's emotional development