Dr. Carol George is professor emerita and a developmental psychologist at the Department of Psychology, Mills College at Northeastern University, in Oakland California, USA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in 1984. Her developmental psychopathology approach addresses typical and atypical development and sequelae to elucidate the mechanisms of transmission and effects of attachment trauma on children, parents, and infant and adult mental health. As an internationally renowned attachment expert, Dr. George has authored numerous papers and book chapters on adult and child attachment and caregiving and their clinical applications. Dr. George is the primary author of attachment and parenting assessments, including the Adult Attachment Interview, the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System, the Attachment Doll Play Assessment, the Caregiving Interview, and the Caregiving Helplessness Scale. Her books include Attachment Disorganization (1999), Disorganized Attachment and Caregiving (2011), The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (2012), Neuroscience of Attachment (2017), and Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (2022). She has received research funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Development, and Mills College faculty development grants and the Mary Metz Teaching Excellence Grant. Her current research focus is the intergenerational transmission of attachment trauma and shame.