Attachment and Sexuality

edited by Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology; Diana Diamond, Ph.D., and Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D. (The Analytic Press) Each paper featured in this text forms a separate narrative strand that clarifies different configurations of the relationship between attachment and sexuality. The unifying thread is the notion that the attachment system, and particularly the degree of felt security—or lack thereof—in relation to early attachment figures, provides a paradigm for relationships that forms a scaffold for the developmental unfolding of sexuality in all its manifestations. These manifestations include infantile and adult, masturbatory and mutual, and normative and perverse sexuality.