Trauma

According to John Bowlby, British psychiatrist and founder of attachment theory, “attachment is a lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.” The first attachment relationship typically develops with one’s primary caregivers during infancy (first 18 months of life). Attachment theory describes how early caregiver relationships shape our patterns of relating across the lifespan and create a template for how we build and interpret relationships. Essentially, how primary caregivers act towards and meet a child’s needs form the foundation for how a child will perceive and act in close relationships (their attachment style). Attachment theory research, which began in the 1950s and […]