Ainsworth found a remarkably efficient window onto experience-developed internal working models of attachment when she and her colleagues deployed the Strange Situation Procedure for analyzing the choreography of infant-parent behaviors in the lab. Main and colleagues added to this foundation by developing the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), a method that analyzes language as a psychologically informed behavior. That is, the AAI not only regards language in dialog as a shared symbolic system for content reporting, but also examines specific linguistic forms as an informative vein of analysis, providing systematically derived and quantified results. I will present meta-analytic findings that this linguistic-formal method can detect unresolved/disorganized attachment representations that mark a greater than two-fold risk for post-traumatic stress disorder or borderline personality disorder. Also, I will present results from a new interview modeled on the AAI, to consider the unresolved states of mind and their carry-over versus resilience in the context of religiosity as a specific form of attachment-informed cultural practice.