This paper reports on associations observed between Adult Attachment Interviews (AAIs) obtained from adoptive mothers, and emotional themes appearing in doll play narratives obtained from their recently adopted children. The children, aged 4 -8 years, carried into their adoptive placements a history of consistently serious maltreatment, including neglect and abuse. Results reveal strong and significant influences of maternal state of mind regarding attachment upon their adopted children's storycompletions. Mothers whose AAIs were judged insecure (either dismissing or preoccupied) were likely to have adopted children who, three months after placement, provided story-completions with higher levels of aggressiveness as compared to the stories provided by children adopted by mothers with secure-autonomous AAIs. Children whose adoptive mothers provided AAIs indicative of unresolved (as opposed to resolved) mourning regarding past loss or trauma provided story completions with higher scores for emotional themes such as 'parent appearing child-like' and 'throwing out or throwing away'. Results also include a qualitative section that provides narrative excerpts of maternal AAIs and children's story-completions. Discussion concerns the contribution these findings make to the literature on intergenerational transmission of attachment patterns, and the implications these findings have for child clinical work and social policy.

In this paper we describe research using narrative techniques to examine the effects of past abuse, and the process of subsequent recovery, in children aged 4-8. The paper examines the impact of abuse upon children's inner representations of self, others, and relationships, the role of defensive processes, and indicators of change as the child settles in a new family. The use of the narrative technique as part of a clinical assessment is also described. This study is ongoing, and is based at the Anna Freud Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Thomas Coram Adoption Service.

A six‐frequency radar was operated at Homer, Alaska, to determine the wavelength dependence and aspect sensitivity of radar auroral echoes at 50, 139, 398, 850, 1210, and 3000 Mhz. The lack of dependence of aspect sensitivity on frequency and the nature of the wavelength dependence indicates that the formulation for field‐aligned scattering described by Booker is not adequate. It is believed that a more plausible model for the generation of field‐aligned ionization is described by Farley. However, the nature of these results and the status of Farley's theory make quantitative comparisons beyond the scope of this paper.

A study was conducted to investigate the azimuthal distribution of high‐frequency slant E echoes and its relationship to the polar cap electric field. Analysis of data obtained with an oblique step sounder and a rotatable log periodic antenna located at Resolute Bay, Canada, showed that the highest frequency of the slant E echo trace during any given azimuth scan was found to maximize in the direction of the E region current vector. This relationship is inferred from the striking 15‐deg/h diurnal variation in the direction of the highest‐frequency slant E echo, the change of this direction with the sign of the azimuthal component of the interplanetary magnetic field, and the general agreement of the direction of slant E echo maxima with the directions shown by equivalent current systems derived from polar cap magnetometer data. This directional relationship is interpreted in terms of conditions established by the Buneman‐Farley two‐stream instability, the magnetic aspect sensitivity, and the ionospheric refraction. Slant E echoes, which were also observed at angles near perpendicular to the current flow, are thought to be due to secondary plasma waves generated by a mechanism similar to that proposed by Sudan et al. (1973). The possibility that some of the slant E echoes used in the analysis are really slant F echoes remains to be investigated.

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