Attachment in Therapeutic Practice

About Arietta SladeJeremy Holmes

Arietta Slade Ph.D. is Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Professor Emerita Clinical Psychology The City University of New York.  A theoretician clinician teacher and researcher she has written about the development of parental reflective functioning the implications of attachment for child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy and for infant mental health practice. She is one of the founders and co-directors of Minding the Baby® an interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers infants and their families at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.  Dr. Slade is editor with Jeremy Holmes of the six volume set Major Work on Attachment (SAGE Publications 2013) with Elliot Jurist and Sharone Bergner of Mind to Mind: Infant Research Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis (Other Press 2008) and with Dennie Wolf of Children at Play (Oxford University Press 1994).  She has also been in private practice for over thirty-five years working with individuals of all ages.