A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood ...

Welcome back to the second part of my series on disorganized attachment. In the first article, I explored how children with anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles each have predictable ...

Understanding how they form and still affect you to this day is key to breaking negative relationship patterns.

Attachment theory is almost everywhere. In magazines and books, in the news, on social media and in our conversations with each other. Originally rooted in developmental psychology, the theory ...

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 has entered the realm of pop psychology, seemingly providing answers to many common problems. The theory, which is one of the most empirically validated within developmental ...

Attachment theory is a tremendous field of research that is fascinating to read about. For our purposes, I will sum it up very quickly: The way our parent/primary caregiver interacts with us when we ...

Have you ever been cheated on or had an affair and wondered from where did it all start to go wrong? For some, the seeds of the affair might have been planted as far back as childhood, according to ...

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you." These are the words of poet Philip Larkin, penned in ...

A core principle of attachment theory emphasizes that children thrive when they have a "safe haven” to retreat to amidst life's external challenges. For a child with a strained family life, this could ...