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![]() Main completed her doctorate under Ainsworth in 1973. 1 However, her application was accepted by Ainsworth for graduate work on child–caregiver attachment. Following her lifelong interest in language, Main applied to Hopkins to study psycholinguistics. Since Main had married one of her philosophy professors, Alvin Main, if she wanted to continue to graduate school she would need to find a programme nearby. This included four years of courses in literature and philosophy. As an undergraduate she studied classics and natural sciences at St John’s College, Maryland. However, her distinctive training prior to graduate work meant that she came to the study of child development from an unusual angle. Mary Main was one of Ainsworth’s first graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University. ![]() The chapter also draws on an examination of the development of the Adult Attachment Interview coding system from the 1980s to the 2000s to offer clarifications regarding Main and Hesse’s ideas regarding ‘lack of resolution’ of loss and trauma. A particular focus of the chapter are the six-year systems for assessing attachment developed by Main and colleagues. Recognition of the centrality of attention to Main’s theory also helps makes sense of her introduction of the disorganised attachment classification, and her development of the Adult Attachment Interview. The chapter argues for the importance of attentional processes for Main’s conceptualisation of minimising and maximising attachment strategies. The Berkeley group generated the dominant approach to method and theory for the second generation of attachment research, and helped establish the priorities and values of the field over recent decades. ![]() This chapter explores the contributions of Mary Main, Erik Hesse, and the Berkeley longitudinal study.
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