Disorganized Attachment
Disorganized attachment
(Main & Solomon, 1986) describes an extreme
disturbance of the reciprocity between child and caregiver. Representing
between 5 and 15% of many research samples, these children commonly
experience their caregivers as frightening, sometimes unavailable, cold,
and harsh and, at other times, as overwhelming and consuming. This
child can appear fearful, dissociative, and disorganized, and uncertain
and anxious to the point of decompensation when stress arises in the
company of this caregiver.
Overextending the emotional fuel analogy, disorganized attachment
might be comparable to your experience at a gas station where the
attendant sometimes greets you eagerly, pours you a complimentary
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