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Stan Tatkin

Disciplines:
psychology/attachment theory
psychotherapy/couples therapy
neuroscience/neuroscience of relationships

Summary

American psychotherapist who developed the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) — integrating attachment theory, neuroscience, and arousal regulation to help couples create secure functioning relationships.

Core Contribution

Created PACT therapy by integrating attachment neuroscience with couples work — arguing that a secure-functioning relationship requires that partners' nervous systems co-regulate, making biological arousal management central to couples therapy.

Notable Works & Achievements

Wired for Love

Wired for Dating

Historical Influences

John Bowlby Allan Schore Dan Siegel

Intellectual Lineage

Attachment Theory Couples Therapy TraditionNeuroscience of Relationships

Contemporaries & Peers

John Gottman Esther Perel Sue Johnson

Minds Influenced

Couples therapy communityAttachment-based relationship advice

Intellectual Posterity

PACT therapyWired for Love

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