Talk:Dynamic-maturational model of attachment and adaptation

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There is an error in the last sentence of first paragraph: ″The DMM was initially created by developmental psychologist Patricia McKinsey Crittenden and her colleagues including David DiLalla, Angelika Claussen, Andrea Landini, Steve Farnfield, and Susan Spieker″. Contributors to the DMM model included many more colleagues.

I suggest that the sentence would be more accurately worded: ″The DMM was created by developmental psychologist Patricia McKinsey Crittenden and her colleagues″.

Current contributors to DMM theory are listed in DMM Publications. Karen HazellRaine (talk) 05:08, 4 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Karen, thank you for your suggestion. It′s not an error, but it may be a style issue that could be discussed. I added those five names after communicating with Pat Crittenden by email. She told me they were the people who offered initial and primary influences to the development of the DMM. I didn′t cite ″personal communication with Dr. Crittenden″ because that didn't feel like an appropriate cite for Wikipedia.


 * David DiLalla contributed to the concept of ″compulsive compliance″ in a 1988 paper, a rather significant shift from the then existing dismissive/avoidant concepts describing attachment A-patterns. Angelika Claussen and Crittenden co-edited a 2000 book and co-wrote 11 papers between 1991-2007 (according to the 2019 DMM Publications list). The DMM developed in the 1980′s and 1990′s, and one of those papers, in 2000, may have been the first formal publication in English using the modern title ″Dynamic Maturational Model.″ Steve Farnfield started writing about Crittenden′s work in at least 1998, and he gave Crittenden′s model its name. Susan Spieker has been writing research papers on the DMM since at least 2010. In 2011 Andrea Landini and Crittenden co-wrote Assessing Adult Attachment: A dynamic-Maturational method of discourse analysis (one of the most influential books I have ever read), and he was instrumental in clarifying many of the DMM patterns.


 * I agree with you, Karen, that there have been many contributors to the development of the DMM, including the those cited in this Wikipedia article and the 100+ authors identified in the DMM Publications list. I believe John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Peter Fonagy, Franco Baldoni, Airi Hautamäki, Kasia Kozlowska, Clark Baim, Lane Strathearn, Shari Kidwell, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, Rudi Dallos, Simon Wilkinson, Nicole Letourneau, Martin Stokowy, Nicola Sahar, Alison Toobey, Katrina Robson and Ben Grey have all made important contributions. Perhaps there are others? There have been many, many others history will never recall. One of the strengths of the DMM is the openness of major contributors to consider and incorporate new ideas to understand the functioning of the human self-protective system we currently call ″attachment″.


 * ConflictScience (talk) 13:08, 11 July 2021 (UTC)