Duschinsky Robbie
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Attach Hum Dev. 2025 Feb;27(1):156-189. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2024.2400808. Epub 2024 Sep 17.
Brett Kahr has referred to the death of Mary Main as the loss of "the queen of attachment research." However, how well is Main's work actually known? In this portrait and tribute, I argue that Main's transformative contributions have become a taken-for-granted part of the basic environment of attachment research, but that readers have faced obstacles in understanding and responding to their strengths and limitations. Drawing from interviews with Main, in this paper I describe some of her early life experiences and mental and physical health challenges, which she felt had influenced what was possible for her in her research. I then highlight less well-known aspects of her ideas regarding the role of attention within attachment strategies, the nature of disorganised attachment, the implications of alarming caregiving behaviours, and what is ultimately measured by the Adult Attachment Interview. My goal throughout is to help reader see both how much Main's rich and exciting works still have to teach, and identify their many loose threads still to follow.
布雷特·卡尔称玛丽·梅因的去世为“依恋研究女王”的陨落。然而，梅因的研究成果实际上广为人知吗？在这篇人物特写与致敬文章中，我认为梅因具有变革性的贡献已成为依恋研究基础环境中被视为理所当然的一部分，但读者在理解和回应这些贡献的优势与局限时面临着障碍。通过对梅因的访谈，我在本文中描述了她早期的一些生活经历以及身心健康方面的挑战，她认为这些经历影响了她在研究中所能取得的成就。接着，我将重点介绍她关于注意力在依恋策略中的作用、混乱依恋的本质、令人担忧的养育行为的影响以及成人依恋访谈最终所测量内容等观点中鲜为人知的方面。我始终的目标是帮助读者明白梅因丰富而精彩的作品仍有多少值得学习之处，并找出其中众多有待梳理的头绪。
