Attachment theory — structured clinical viva

You are the psychiatry registrar. Discuss attachment theory for fellowship examiners using a 22-year-old woman with borderline personality features, recurrent self-harm after perceived abandonment, childhood emotional neglect, and a mother who still becomes dissociative when discussing the death of a sibling. Cover Bowlby constructs, Strange Situation patterns, AAI states of mind, mentalization, the difference between attachment style and RAD/DSED, clinical implications for personality/trauma care and parenting risk, and what interventions you would and would not recommend.