A therapist explains the four attachment styles of attachment theory—secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized—and how they affect adult relationships.

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 ...

Bowlby, who pioneered the theory, described attachment as "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings." Ainsworth, ... According to attachment theory, ...

Attachment theory stems from psychologist John Bowlby's studies of maternal deprivation and animal behavior research in the early 1950s. Attachment theory ... attachment early in life, according ...

According to attachment theory, psychological theory developed in the 1950s by mental health professionals John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, the way our caregivers treat and relate to us when we ...

According to the field of attachment theory, each person has a unique attachment style that informs how that person relates to intimacy: secure, anxious or avoidant. We talk with Amir Levine, a ...

Attachment theory puts emotional and physical connection at the center of our relationships. If that sounds like, “well, duh,” consider that prior to Bowlby’s work, women were counseled to ...

According to foundational attachment research done by social psychologists Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver in the 1980s, 56 percent of people have secure attachment. But the theory posits other ...