Below is a list of reading on attachment - at the heart of parental alienation. In particular, we have included some of Dr. Childress’ “required reading” for any mental health professional involved in attachment disorders. Start with Bowlby.
2019
Amad: Similarities between borderline personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder: evidence from testing-state meta-analysis
2016
Boldt: Attachment in middle childhood: predictors, correlates, and implications for adaptation
2015
Ainsworth: Patterns of Attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation
Horan: Understanding relationship among the dark triad personality profile and romantic partners conflict
Stern: Empathy from infancy to adolescence: an attachment perspective on the development of individual differences
2014
Book: Unpacking “evil”: Claiming the core of the Dark Triad
Cui: Parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment: The role of adolescent emotion regulation
Jones: Introducing the short dark triad (SD3): A brief measure of dark personality traits
Lacey: Parental separation and adult psychological distress: an investigation of material and relational mechanism
2013
Barnow: Maternal transmission of borderline personality disorder symptoms in the community-based greifswald family study
Fraley: Attachment and Parental Divorce: A test of the diffusion and sensitive period hypothesis
Jonason: The emotional deficits associated with the Dark Triad: cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and alexithymia
Hadden: Relationship duration moderates association between attachment and relationship quality: meta-analytic support for the temporal adult romantic model
2012
Kalmijn: Long-term effects of divorce on parent-child relationships: within family comparisons of fathers and mothers
2011
Fonagy: Borderline personality disorder, mentalization, and the neurobiology of attachment
Colonnesi: The relation between insecure attachment and child anxiety: A meta-analytic review
Dutton: Parental personality disorder and its effects on children: a review of current literature
Lowell: The role of attachment in the relationship between child maltreatment and later emotional and behavioral functioning
2010
Raineki: Developing a neurobehavioral animal model of infant attachment to an abusive caregiver
Barnow: Borderline personality disorder and psychosis: A Review
2009
Barnow: Interpersonal evaluation bias in borderline personality disorder
Carlson: A prospective investigation of the development of borderline personality symptoms
Korn: EMDR and the treatment of complex PTSD: A Review
2008
Bretherton: Internal working models in attachment relationships
Johnson: Psychiatric disorders in adolescent and early adulthood and risk for child-rearing difficulties during middle adulthood
Macfie: Independent influences upon mother-toddler role reversal: infant-mother attachment disorganization and role reversal in mother’s childhood
2007
Lopez: An attachment-theoretical perspective on the use of splitting defences
2006
Madigan: Unresolved states of mind, disorganized attachment relationships, and disrupted interactions of adolescent mothers and their infants
Anda: The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood
Johnson: Association of parental personality disorders and Axis I disorders with childrearing behavior
2005
Kerig: Revisiting the construct of boundary dissolution
Levy: The implications of attachment theory and research for understanding borderline personality disorder
Macfie: Intergenerational transmission of role reversal between parent and child: dyadic and family systems internal working models
Pearlman: Clinical applications of the attachment framework: relational treatment of complex trauma
Rappoport: Co-Narcissism: how we accomodate to narcissistic parents
Shaffer: The development and adaptational implications of generational boundary dissolution
Fonagy: Bridging the transmission gap: an end to an important mystery of attachment research?
Fruzzetti: Family interaction and the development of borderline personality disorder: a transactional model
Lyddon: Developmental personality styles: an attachment theory conceptualization of personality disorders
2004
Holmes: Disorganized attachment system and borderline personality disorder: a clinical perspective
Agarwal: Attachment studies with bordline patients: A review
Baughman: Liar liar pants on fire: cheater strategies linked to the dark triad
Beck: Cognitive therapy of personality disorders: twenty years of progress
2003
Barone: Developmental protective and risk factors in borderline personality disorder: A study using the adult attachment interview
Fonagy: The developmental roots of borderline personality disorder in early attachment relationships: A theory and some evidence
2001
Johnson: Association of maladaptive parental behavior with psychiatric disorder among parents and their offsprings
2000
Sroufe: Early relationships and the development of children
Jellema: Insecure attachment states: Their relationship to borderline and narcissistic personality disorders and treatment process in cognitive analytic therapy
1999
Lyons: Maternal frightened, frightening, or atypical behavior and disorganized infant attachment patterns
Bailey: Does childhood sexual abuse cause borderline personality disorder?
Brown: Bowen family systems theory and practice: Illustration and Critique
Fuselier: Placing the stockholm syndrome in perspective
Garety: Cognitive approaches to delusions: a critical review of theories and evidence
1998
Brennan: Attachment styles and personality disorders: their connections to each other and to parental divorce, parental death, and perception of parental caregiving
Brown: The transmission of trauma through caretaking patterns of behavior in holocaust families: re-enactments in a facilitated long-term second-generation group
Cohen: parental narcissism and the disengagement of the non-custodial father after divorce
1996
Barber: Parental psychological control: revisiting a neglected construct
Collins: working models of attachment: implications of explanation, emotion, and behavior
1995
Bremner: Deficits in short-term memory in adult survivors of child abuse
Juni: Triangulation as splitting in the service of ambivalence
1994
Benoit: Stability and transmission of attachment across three generations
Cassidy: The insecure/ambivalent pattern of attachment: theory and research
1992
Bowlby: The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
Bretherton: The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
1991
Bartholomew: Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model
Jacobvitz: The transmission of mother-child boundary disturbances across three generations
1990
Bartholomew: Avoidance of intimacy: an attachment perspective
Freeney: Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships
1989
Ainsworth: Attachments Beyond Infancy
Herman: Childhood trauma in borderline personality disorder
1988
Bowlby: A secure base: parent=child attachment and healthy human development
1987
Hazan: Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process
1985
Mineka: Observational conditioning of snake fear in rhesus monkeys
Tonkin: Narcissism and borderline states: kernberg, kohut, and psychotherapy
1984
Gerson: Splitting: The development of a measure
1980
Bowlby: Attachment and loss: loss sadness and depression
1979
Ainsworth: Infant-Mother Attachment
1977
Bowlby: The making and breaking of affectional bonds
1975
Fraiberg: Ghosts in the Nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationship
1973
Bowlby: Attachment and Loss, Volume II Separation Anxiety and Anger
1969
Bowlby: Attachment and loss, Volume I Attachmentsmom
1960
Bowlby: Separtion Anxiety: A critical review of the literature