Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- The roots and growing points of attachment theory -- Attachments and other affectional bonds across the life cycle -- Perspectives on attachment -- The attachment bond in childhood and adulthood -- The social construction of uncertainty -- Attachment quality as an organizer of emotional and behavioral responses in a longitudinal perspective -- Attachment patterns in children of depressed mothers -- Metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, and singular (coherent) vs. multiple (incoherent) model of attachment: findings and directions for future research -- Effects on infant mother attachment of mother's unresolved loss of an attachment figure, or other traumatic experience -- Failure of the holding relationship: some effects of physical rejection on the child's attachment and inner experience -- The application of attachment theory to understanding and treatment in family therapy -- Insecure attachment and agoraphobia -- Loss of parent in childhood, attachment style, and depression in adulthood -- Attachment, bonding, and psychiatric problems after bereavement in adult life -- Postscript by John Bowlby -- Index.