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SUMMARY:'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical wo
 rk of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment - Robbie Du
 schinsky and Sophie Reijman (Department of Public Health and Primary Care)
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DTEND:20161013T160000Z
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:'Disorganised attachment' (Main and Solomon 1990) is a classif
 ication made of infant-caregiver relationships in the Ainsworth Strange Si
 tuation\, and is among the most influential assessments of infant mental h
 ealth. It is made on the basis of observations of out-of-context\, unexpec
 ted\, or anomalous behaviours shown by an infant on reunion with their car
 egiver after a brief separation. This classification has received a high d
 egree of interest\, from researchers\, clinicians and social workers\, as 
 well as policy makers. Disorganised attachment has primarily been understo
 od through the lens of the Hesse and Main's concept of 'fright without sol
 ution'\, taken to mean that an infant experiences a conflict between a des
 ire to approach and flee from a parent who frightens them. This talk draws
  from a wider project\, funded by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome 
 Trust\, studying debates around disorganised infant attachment and their i
 mplications for clinicians and social workers. The specific focus of the p
 aper will be on the practical work of measuring and classifying infant-car
 egiver attachment relationships\, drawing on interviews\, archival researc
 h\, and participant observation. The paper will reflect particularly on th
 e significance of sharp disparities found between conventional\, circulati
 ng accounts of disorganised attachment and coders' practical theories of b
 ehaviour and relationship processes.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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