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Developmental Personality Styles: An Attachment Theory Conceptualization of Personality Disorders

✍ Scribed by William J. Lyddon; Alissa Sherry

Publisher: American Counseling Association
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 183 KB
Volume: 79
Category: Article
ISSN: 1556-6678
DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2001.tb01987.x

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✦ Synopsis

Attachment theory, as a developmentally based theory of personality formation, provides a viable framework for understanding the development and maintenance of personality disorders, or what A. E. Ivey and M. B. Ivey (1998) have referred to as “developmental personality styles.” Using K. Bartholomew's (1990) 4‐dimensional model of adult attachment as an organizational framework, 10 developmental personality styles are differentiated regarding their unique attachment experiences, working models of self and other, and feedforward beliefs. Implications of an attachment theory framework for counseling clients with problematic developmental personality styles are discussed.

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