The work was completed by her student Mary Main, and Main’s research led to shocking conclusions. Beginning in the 1970s and throughout the ’80s, Mary Main, a protégé of Mary Ainsworth and research psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, began interviewing parents and studying the interactions with their babies. Mary Main at the University of California Berkeley invented the Adult Attachment Interview, and said we don’t have to look at childhood. In disorganized attachment, the parent reacts to the child’s upset by being frightened or frightening to the child -- compounding the child’s fear. Introduction Earned secure attachment: According to Mary Main, (1995) the primary characteristics of “earned secure attachment” are metacognitional and integrative thinking.This includes the capacity to elaborate a theory of the other’s mind, decentralising, the ability to reflect on one’s mental states, and the establishment of a sense of mastery and personal efficacy. So in 1982, she created the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) to study the adults, releasing results 1984-96. The Adult Attachment Interview. ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW PROTOCOL George, C., Kaplan, N., & Main, M. (1985). Both Main and Crittenden realized that the criteria Ainsworth was using did not allow for the attachment classification of a significant number of children. Unpublished manuscript, University of California at Berkeley. Mary Main and Erik Hesse are presenters at a 2-day program December 11-12, 2010 in Los Angeles. Disorganized attachment is the most insecure type of attachment and constitutes a risk factor for a range of psychopathologies. Those who supported attachment theory got defensive. Mary Main, Ph.D. identified a fourth style, which was added in. Ainsworth's graduate students, including Mary Main and Patricia “Pat” Crittenden, made important developments to attachment science and theory. Contact the authors for information about training and the most current version of the interview protocol.) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2516103218816707 This was not one of Ainsworth's initial three categories of attachment, known in research as 'A', 'B' and 'C', but was identified by Mary Main in subsequent research and is known as 'D'. Developmental psychologists, Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby, were responsible for the creation of Attachment Theory and the various attachment types. In 1986, another psychologist Mary Main working with Judith Solomon gave a new understanding to some behaviors of the children Mary Ainsworth had examined but could not resolve. Main discovered so many babies were peculiar, she got concerned about the parents. Coming to Los Angeles: Dr. Dan Siegel with Drs. The Work of Mary Main, Judith Solomon, and Erik Hesse. We can interview a person and tell if they were securely attached. Mary Main’s Attachment Research. 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