From safety to affect regulation: attachment from the vantage point of adolescence.

John Bowlby (1969/1982) opens the first book of his classic Attachment trilogy with this quotation from Sigmund Freud in a chapter titled “Point of View.” Bowlby then goes on to carefully outline his own paradigm-altering point of view, building from extensive observations of young children separated from their parents. Bowlby’s selection of this quotation suggests his recognition that viewing attachment from the perspective of the young child, although remarkably productive and generative, should ultimately be just one of a number of vantage points from which we view attachment phenomena. This chapter suggests one such additional point of view. We begin with a thought experiment. What if the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996; Main, Goldwyn, & Hesse,