Attachment security, affect regulation, and defensive responses to mood induction.

propositions are (1) that infants have a complex social and emotional life, (2) that early experiences can have lifelong implications, (3) that mental representations of early experiences mediate effects on later behavior and development, (4) that defensive processes play a role in affect regulation, and (5) that loss of an attachment figure at any age is an emergency and mourning is a process that serves an adaptive affect-regulation function.