Normative processes in romantic attachment: Introduction and overview

Abstract

In 1987 Hazan and Shaver published an article entitled “Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process.” In the years since, adult romantic attachment has been the focus of more than a dozen books and edited volumes. An additional three dozen books and edited volumes have included extensive coverage of adult attachment theory and research. The present volume has something unique to add to this discourse. It addresses the phenomena of adult romantic attachment from perspectives that have heretofore been missing and that promise to move the field forward in both significant and exciting ways.