Historically speaking, attachment theory was developed by John Bowlby as a variant of object relations theory (Bowlby, 1988). John Bowlby was a psychoanalyst who began his practice during World War II, working with maladjusted children, some of whom had been displaced from their home by the war. Bowlby’s clinical experiences led him to an understanding of the roots of children’s mal-behaviors and insecure attachment patterns (later titled attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance by attachment researchers). He created an updated psychoanalytic theory by combining concepts from object relations theory with modern cognitive-developmental psychology and other fields. In collaboration with Mary Salter Ainsworth, he laid the foundation for one of the most highly researched frameworks in modern psychology (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). Mary Salter Ainsworth was known for her performance of the famous “strange situation” experiment (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) a paradigm that laid the groundwork for attachment classifications including attachment security, anxiety, and avoidance. Ainsworth was also a Rorschach scholar and an expert who published the seminal work Developments in the Rorschach Technique with Bruno Klopfer and Walter Holt, the most prominent Rorschach scholars of the time (Klopfer, Ainsworth, Klopfer, & Holt, 1954). Ainsworth first encountered Bowlby when she moved to London from the United States and responded to a newspaper advertisement for a research position. Bowlby was looking for a research experienced person in child development and also in projective techniques. Bowlby thought highly of a study published in the Rorschach Review, and he accepted her as his research assistant. Ainsworth believed that Bowlby wanted to inRorschachiana 34, 111–114 DOI: 10.1027/1192-5604/a000044 © 2013 Hogrefe Publishing