This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Developments in Attachment Research explores the contributions of several research groups in developmental science that have shaped the study of attachment and caregiving in recent decades, each with a different image of the history of attachment research, of the nature of attachment, and why and how attachment research might be valuable. In tracing changes in attachment theory over time, the book examines the development of scientific evidence and breakthroughs. The book also examines attachment research within developmental psychology as a culture, considering its leadership, kinship structures, symbols, conflicts, points of entry or exit, and the pressures and opportunities to which it has responded or failed to respond.

Robbie Duschinsky is Professor of Social Science & Health in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge; he is also Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is the author of Cornerstones of Attachment Research (OUP) and Mentalization and Epistemic Trust (OUP). He is the co-editor (with Kate White) of Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive (Routledge) and (with Tommie Forslund) of The Attachment Theory and Research Reader. With Forslund and Granqvist, he published an accessible introduction to attachment research in 2023, The Psychology of Attachment (Policy Press).