The Adult Attachment Interview: Rating and classification problems posed by non-normative samples

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 284-303

  Turton, P ^a   Mcgauley, G ^b   Marin Avellan, L ^b   Hughes, P ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adult Attachment Interview; Classification; Forensic; Non normative; Psychiatric; Rating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; VIOLENCE;

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035756938     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730110096898     Document Type: Article

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