Psychology
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love
1994·512 pages
Traces the history of attachment theory and its insights into how early bonds shape personality, relationships, and parenting.
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Traces the history of attachment theory and its insights into how early bonds shape personality, relationships, and parenting.
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The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children--seemingly against our will--the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist ...
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Sexual content
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Discusses adult romantic attachment and intimacy patterns; no sexual content.
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Political content
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Covers politics, gender roles in research, and daycare/working-parent debates.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses neglect, maternal deprivation, insecure attachment, and harmful caregiving.
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