Our earliest experiences with caregivers serve as inner templates for life-long beliefs about self, relationships, and the world-at-large. We can trace back how we currently manage stress and trauma ...

Attachment theory sounds like a complicated concept, but when you're a parent it can sometimes boil down to a crying, clinging child who does not want to be separated from you. Put simply, attachment ...

Attachment theory is one of the ways we can analyze how we function in our closets relationships and understand why we behave the way we do. Laura Mucha is the author of Love Understood. “Humans are ...

Likely you’ve heard someone flippantly declare that they (or you, or someone else) have “daddy issues” or “mommy issues.” While most often used as an insult, these phrases are actually rooted in ...

A disorganized attachment style is characterized by a deep desire for intimacy coupled with a history of self-sabotaging ...

Professors, don’t be too hard on graduate students who arrive for weekly advising meetings stricken with anxiety or who sometimes don’t arrive at all. A new study suggests they may simply have ...

The emotional connection formed by nonverbal emotional communication between an infant and their parent or primary caregiver is known as the attachment bond. This bond is not based on love or the ...

The panic set in at the same point every semester: Whenever Ximena Arriaga, a psychology professor at Purdue University, got to attachment theory in her course on close relationships, the classroom ...

In 2010, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller released the book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love. Despite the book’s many strengths, it has also ...