ATTACHMENT and HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Mauricio Cortina, MD, Director
Beth Levine, LCSW-C, Assistant Director
The mission of the Attachment and Human Development Center (AHDC), founded and directed by Mauricio Cortina, is prevention and public education, supporting training programs within the Washington School of Psychiatry, and research. Programs and initiatives that further these goals are announced as they are developed. The Center also invites speakers and scholars who are making substantial contributions in the fields of attachment and human development. An advisory board, composed of leaders in the field, can be called upon to assist in these endeavors.
From its inception, attachment theory has had a strong empirical and observational base that has developed over the past few decades, expanding the theory in new directions. The AHDC will build on this tradition of rigorous scholarship, of testing concepts and methods, and of cross-fertilization from related fields that has kept attachment theory a vibrant field of study. This spirit of openness is also consistent with the best traditions of the Washington School of Psychiatry.
Advisory Board
- Jude Cassidy, PhD
- Mary Dozier, PhD
- Sonia Gojman de Millan, PhD
- Giovanni Liotti, MD
- Joseph Lichtenberg, MD
- Mario Marrone, MD
- Robert Marvin, PhD
- Salvador Millán, MD
- Alan Sroufe, PhD