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Attachment theory in adult psychiatry. Part 2: Importance to the therapeutic relationship

Ken Ma is a specialist registrar in child and adolescent psychiatry at The Blakesley Centre (102 Blakesley Road, Birmingham B25 8RN, UK. Email: kenkkma{at}yahoo.co.uk), and is also an associate clinical teacher at the University of Warwick. His interests include the contribution of attachment theory to personality development and the help-seeking literature, and the assessment of attachment in adolescence and adulthood.

This article focuses on how the general adult psychiatrist, in thinking about everyday clinical problems, may usefully apply attachment theory to gain insight. Fictional case vignettes are used to illustrate the importance of attachment in shaping and understanding the clinician–patient relationship. Ways in which service configurations may be informed by attachment theory are also examined.

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