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About Us

OUR MISSION

To promote, at an international level, high quality research related to the scientific study of Emotion and Attachment (including psychology, psychiatry, social work, educational science, biology, neurosciences, pedagogy, and family studies), including dissemination through our official scientific journal Attachment and Human Development. 

To spread awareness and use of reliable and valid research methods and intervention tools so as to encourage the implementation of efficacious research, as well as clinical and practical work in the field of attachment.

To encourage contacts between psychology research and social reality, by cooperating with similar organizations and associations and by supporting welfare policies which favor security of attachment in children, families and society as a whole.

To foster the dissemination of knowledge and stimulating collaboration by organizing meetings, conferences and seminars having the purpose of increasing knowledge and research inherent to attachment. In particular, promoting and sponsoring the biennial International Attachment Conferences as well as the Attachment Pre-Conference workshops at the biennial meetings of the Society Research in Child Development (SRCD)

To cooperate, in all necessary ways and forms, with institutional bodies responsible for addressing and financing scientific research based on attachment theory, promoting public policy and practice serving the needs of children, parents, educational facilities and families.

To support the training of young researchers, by putting in place both suitable training opportunities and incentives toward success in their careers.

SEAS constitution

Our Executive Board

Meet the Board Members

Pasco Fearon (UK)

President

Nicola Carone (Italy)

Vice-President and Treasurer

David Oppenheim (Israel)

Secretary

Executive Board Member

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg

Executive Board Member

Marlene Moretti

Carlo Schuengel

Board Members

2020-2023
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, the Netherlands
Nicola Carone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Pasco Fearon, President, United Kingdom
Marlene Moretti, Canada
Carlo Schuengel, the Netherlands
David Oppenheim, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, Past President, USA
Brian Allen, Associate Member, USA
Pascal Vrticka, Associate Member, UK

2016-2019
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, the Netherlands
Lavinia Barone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Pasco Fearon, President, United Kingdom
Marlene Moretti, Canada
Carlo Schuengel, the Netherlands
Mario Mikulincer, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, Past President, USA

2012-2015
Lavinia Barone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Jude Cassidy, USA
Pasco Fearon, United Kingdom
Mario Mikulincer, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, President, USA
Marinus van IJzendoorn, the Netherlands

Honorary Members

Sir Richard Bowlby, UK

David Pederson, Canada

Inge Bretherton, USA

Abraham Sagi-Schwartz, Israel

Anders Broberg, Sweden

Phil Shaver, USA

Nino Dazzi, Italy

Alan Sroufe, USA

Karin Grossmann, Germany

June Sroufe, USA

Klaus Grossmann, Germany

Joan Stevenson Hinde, UK

Erik Hesse, USA

Everett Waters, USA

Robert Hinde, UK

Giovanni Liotti, Italy

Mary Main, USA

Robert Marvin, USA

Colin Murray Parkes, UK

About SEAS

The Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS) is devoted to the dissemination and use of reliable and valid attachment measures for the betterment of research and clinical work aimed at understanding and promoting security in children, families, and society.

Quote of the day

"“Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.”"

― Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
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