Mary Main | Academic Influence

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Mary Main

Psychology

#359

World Rank

#503

Historical Rank

#241

USA Rank

Clinical Psychology

#134

World Rank

#135

Historical Rank

#67

USA Rank

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Psychology

Mary Main's Degrees

PhD Clinical Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Mary Main was an American psychologist notable for her work in the field of attachment. A Professor at the University of California Berkeley, Main is particularly known for her introduction of the 'disorganized' infant attachment classification and for development of the Adult Attachment Interview and coding system for assessing states of mind regarding attachment. This work has been described as 'revolutionary' and Main has been described as having 'unprecedented resonance and influence' in the field of psychology.

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Mary Main's Published Works

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Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. (1985) (3428)
Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation. (1990) (2302)
Parents' unresolved traumatic experiences are related to infant disorganized attachment status: Is frightened and/or frightening parental behavior the linking mechanism? (1990) (1577)
Discovery of an insecure-disorganized/disoriented attachment pattern. (1986) (1187)
Categories of response to reunion with the parent at age 6: Predictable from infant attachment classifications and stable over a 1-month period. (1988) (860)
The origins of reciprocity : The early mother-infant interaction (1974) (809)
The quality of the toddler's relationship to mother and to father: Related to conflict behavior and the readiness to establish new relationships. (1981) (712)
Cross-Cultural Studies of Attachment Organization: Recent Studies, Changing Methodologies, and the Concept of Conditional Strategies (1990) (701)
Predicting rejection of her infant from mother's representation of her own experience: implications for the abused-abusing intergenerational cycle. (1984) (591)
The Organized Categories of Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Flexible Vs. Inflexible Attention Under Attachment-Related Stress (2000) (577)
Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies (2000) (562)
Social interactions of young abused children: approach, avoidance, and aggression. (1979) (537)
Metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, and singular (coherent) vs. multiple (incoherent) model of attachment: Findings and directions for future research. (1991) (492)
Frightened, threatening, and dissociative parental behavior in low-risk samples: Description, discussion, and interpretations (2006) (451)
Introduction to the special section on attachment and psychopathology: 2. Overview of the field of attachment. (1996) (357)
Recent studies in attachment: Overview, with selected implications for clinical work. (1995) (355)
Security of attachment, compliance, and maternal training methods in the second year of life. (1981) (314)
Responses of Abused and Disadvantaged Toddlers to Distress in Agemates: A Study in the Day Care Setting (1985) (276)
Second‐generation effects of unresolved trauma in nonmaltreating parents: Dissociated, frightened, and threatening parental behavior (1999) (257)
Adult Attachment Interview (2018) (199)
Behavioral development : the Bielefeld interdisciplinary project (1981) (195)
Exploration, play, and cognitive functioning related to infant-mother attachment (1983) (175)
Predictability of Attachment Behavior and Representational Processes at 1, 6, and 19 Years of Age: The Berkeley Longitudinal Study. (2005) (173)
Disorganization and Disorientation in Infant Strange Situation Behavior Phenotypic Resemblance to Dissociative States (1996) (173)
Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers (2017) (169)
Studying differences in language usage in recounting attachment history: An introduction to the AAI. (2008) (130)
Infant response to rejection of physical contact by the mother: aggression, avoidance, and conflict. (1981) (108)
ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: OVERVIEW WITH SUGGESTED APPLICATIONS TO CHILD CUSTODY (2011) (92)
Differences among mothers of infants judged to differ in security. (1979) (86)
Development of Separation Behavior in the First Year of Life: Protest, Following, and Greeting. (1973) (83)
Mothers' attachment status as determined by the Adult Attachment Interview predicts their 6-year-olds' reunion responses: a study conducted in Japan. (2007) (83)
Avoidance of the Attachment Figure and Social-Emotional Adjustment in Day-Care Infants. (1979) (77)
Special Section Frightened, Threatening, and Dissociative Parental Behavior: Theory and Associations With Parental Adult Attachment Interview Status and Infant Disorganization (2006) (43)
Parental aversion to infant-initiated contact is correlated with the parent's own rejection during childhood: The effects of experience on signals of security with respect to attachment. (1990) (42)
Prior participation in the strange situation and overstress jointly facilitate disorganized behaviours: implications for theory, research and practice (2016) (33)
Mary D. Salter ainsworth: Tribute and portrait (1999) (30)
Discovery of a disorganized disoriented attachment pattern (1986) (26)
A short-term longitudinal study of correlates and sequelae of attachment security in autism (2017) (25)
The ultimate causation of some infant attachment phenomena: further answers, further phenomena, and further questions (1979) (24)
Unresolved/Unclassifiable responses to the Adult Attachment Interview : Predictable from Unresolved States and Anomalous Beliefs in the Berkeley-Leiden Adult Attachment Questionnaire (1993) (24)
The woman with the whip : Eva Perón (1952) (8)
Unresolved Loss, a Risk Factor for Offspring, Predicts Event-Related Potential Responses to Death-Related Imagery (2017) (7)
Evita: The Woman With The Whip (1979) (7)
The Meaning of Crying (1976) (4)
Respecifying ‘Fright without Solution’: Infant Disorganized Attachment, Fear and Regulation (2017) (3)
The Woman with the Whip (1952) (3)
Quality of attachment from infancy to early childhood: Security is stable but behavior changes (1984) (2)
Mary Dinsmore Saltworthy Ainsworth (1913-1999): Obituary. (2000) (2)
Missing the Mark Most Mildly. (1979) (2)
Salter Ainsworth : Tribute and Portrait (2002) (1)
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections (2021) (1)
Letter: The meaning of crying. (1976) (0)

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