Attachment and Development quotes I like:
Page 43 : "Secure adults (termed 'autonomous') value intimate relationships and acknowledge the effects of those relationships."
Page 43 : "Dismissing adults ... usually have little to say about the attachment experiences of their childhood.... Their ability to recount specific incidents is limited....the dismissing adult forces the interviewer to bear the responsibility of the interview by giving short, minimally informative answers."
Page 44: "Preoccupied adults become so entangled in the details of early experiences that they are unable to provide an overview. They are still engaged in angry struggles with their parents over old issues....they often fail to answer the question they were asked....the preoccupied adult forces the interviewer to struggle to maintain the interview on topic."
Page 58 : "Thus secure infants learn that their signals of distress elicit a maternal response that is likely to reduce distress, avoidant infants learn that their distress signals will not enlist maternal assistance, and they develop strategies to comfort or distract themselves, and resistant infants learn that the mother is unpredictable, and they become preoccupied with maintaining her attention."
