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Anxiously Attached

Disciplines:
psychology
self-help

Summary

A self-help guide to understanding and healing anxious attachment patterns in relationships — drawing on attachment theory for a popular audience.

Core Contribution

Accessible application of attachment theory to adult relationship patterns. Identification and healing of the anxious attachment style: hypervigilance to signs of abandonment, difficulty self-regulating, outsourcing emotional stability to a partner. Practical exercises for developing secure attachment.

Historical Influences

John Bowlby Mary Ainsworth

Intellectual Lineage

Attachment Theory Self-Help Psychology

Allied Works

AttachedWired for Love Hold Me Tight

Contemporaries & Peers

AttachedWired for Love

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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