The Adult Attachment Interview: information processing and the distinguishing features of preoccupied attachment: Or What has attachment theory ever done for us?

Stephen Farnfield

The Adult Attachment Interview: information processing and the distinguishing features of preoccupied attachment: Or What has attachment theory ever done for us?

Stephen Farnfield

School of Psychology

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Abstract

This chapter looks at information processing in the preoccupied Type C attachment strategies, focusing on the speech patterns identified by work on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). In attachment terms, information processing refers to ways in which the mind processes information about external threat and sexual opportunity. Most of this processing goes on at an unconscious somatic level. The theory section outlines Bowlby’s concept of defensive exclusion (the exclusion of information which, if it were brought to consciousness, would cause us to suffer) and the array of Type C strategies described by Crittenden’s Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment. This is followed by sections on information processing and memory systems together with a few examples. The final section looks at therapeutic implications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Anxiously attached
Subtitle of host publication	Understanding and working with preoccupied attachment
Editors	Linda Cundy
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Karnac Books
Pages	43-68
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	13:978-1-78220-519-7
Publication status	Published - 2017

1 Publication peer-review

Journal of Children's Services (Journal)
Farnfield, S. (Guest editor)
6 Jun 2019
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1 Article

Attachment and the loss of fertility: the attachment strategies of prospective adoptive parents
Farnfield, S., 6 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Children's Services. 14, 2, p. 78-96 18 p., 1.
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The Adult Attachment Interview: information processing and the distinguishing features of preoccupied attachment: Or What has attachment theory ever done for us? / Farnfield, Stephen.
Anxiously attached: Understanding and working with preoccupied attachment. ed. / Linda Cundy. London: Karnac Books, 2017. p. 43-68.

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The Adult Attachment Interview: information processing and the distinguishing features of preoccupied attachment: Or What has attachment theory ever done for us?

Abstract

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Journal of Children's Services (Journal)

Research output

Attachment and the loss of fertility: the attachment strategies of prospective adoptive parents

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