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Jessica Baum

Disciplines:
psychotherapy
relationships
psychology/attachment
psychology/self-abandonment

Summary

American licensed mental health counselor and founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach — whose work on self-abandonment, codependency, and attachment has reached large audiences through social media and podcasting.

Core Contribution

Develops the concept of self-abandonment in relationships — the pattern of overriding one's own needs, feelings, and values to manage others' responses — and provides therapeutic frameworks for people who lose themselves in relationships.

Notable Works & Achievements

Anxiously Attached

Historical Influences

Attachment theory Codependency literature

Intellectual Lineage

PsychotherapyAttachment Theory ApplicationRelationship Therapy

Contemporaries & Peers

Alexandra Solomon Matthew Hussey Stan Tatkin

Minds Influenced

Relationship therapy communityMW relationship content

Intellectual Posterity

Self-abandonment in relationships

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