.,."a welcome review of the area and its theoretical and research concerns....For the most part, the book was an easy read, stimulating ideas for intervention. All suggest that early is better, but there needs to be persistence over time which has become a political issue around how long quality daycare is needed. The authors make an intriguing suggestion of tailoring treatment to specific constellations of mother and child noting that normal populations' will respond to cognitive behavioural or parent education."--"The Canadian Child Psychiatry Review"
"An excellent collection of chapters by some very distinguished clinicians dealing with problems of bonding, attachment, and failures of attachment." --"The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter"
"This book brings together contributors from an all star list of developmental psychopathologists....Although the return to the clinic may be a new trend for some, these chapters' authors predate any tends and have in fact been integrally involved in attachment theory's expansion from the laboratory back into the clinic. The book also continues another valuable tradition in attachment theory by including contributions from a diverse group of researchers, representing four countries and two continents."--"The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"
"Attachment and Psychopathology succeeds in its intent, providing readers with detailed, current information about the state of attachment theory, assessment, and applied research....it is a well researched, clinically and theoretically sound compilation that provides valuable extensions of the role of attachment in human experience....the clinical and social utility ofpursuing attachment research is well illustrated."--"Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic"
.,."the volume is particularly timely, as we can now relate attachment to 'at risk' samples, identify the relatively new "D" (Disorganised) pattern of attachment that appears in such samples, and assess patterns of attachment beyond infancy....there is a lot in this volume, with the excitement and challenge that the union of clinical issues and good research brings." --"Child Psychology and Psychiatry"

Part 1 General considerations: attachment and psychopathology, Atkinson; clinical implications of attachment concepts, Rutter; patterns of attachment and sexual behaviour, Crittenden. Part 2 Risk and prediction: attachment networks in postdivorce families, Bretherton et al; intergenerational transmission of attachment, Van Ijzendoorn and Bakermans-Kranenburg; attachment and childhood behaviour problems in normal, at-risk and clinical samples, Goldberg; the role of attachment processes in externalizing psychopathology in young children, Greenberg et al; morality, disruptive behaviour, borderline personality disorder, crime, and their relationship to security of attachment, Fonagy et al. Part 3 In the clinic: toddlers' internalization of maternal attributions as a factor in quality of attachment, Lieberman; intergenerational transmission of relationship psychopathology, Zeanah et al.