Narrative versus non-narrative assessment of adult attachment -- Defining attachment stories as representational precipitates -- The development and validation of the AAP -- The attachment self: the AAP attachment content coding dimensions -- Defensive processes in the AAP -- Secure attachment -- Dismissing attachment -- Preoccupied attachment -- Dysregulated segregated systems: unresolved attachment, failed mourning, and preoccupation with suffering -- Using the AAP in neurobiology research.