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Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne 2015 Canadian Psychological Association 2015, Vol. 56, No. 2, 197 207 0708-5591/15/$ An Attachment Theoretical Framework for Personality Disorders Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, Tracy L. Clouthier, J. Wesley Scala, and Christina M. Temes The Pennsylvania State University Personality disorders are highly prevalent, associated with considerable morbidity, and difficult to treat. Intrapersonal and interpersonal difficulties are central to the pathology observed in Personality disorders. Attachment theory provides a broad yet parsimonious explanatory Framework for understanding the development, maintenance, and treatment of Personality pathology.
attachment constructs and personality pathology, as well as to address personality disorders more broadly. Keywords: attachment theory, personality disorder, psychopathology, psychotherapy In this article, we propose that John Bowlby and Mary Ain-sworth’s attachment theory provides a cogent, empirically based,
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