Summary: What Do Psychoanalytic Theories and Attachment Theory Have in Common?

As psychoanalytic theory cannot, at its current stage of evolution, be reduced to a singular coherent set of propositions, in this volume we have been forced to consider points of contact between attachment theory and particular traditions of psychoanalytic thought. Here we summarize the points of contact between the two approaches in more general terms, offering illustrative arguments to put to rest the prevailing view of incompatibility between these two frames of reference.