Attachment Styles
Attachment Style
Continuing in our series on Neuropsychotherapy Basics, we look at the central, and critically important, need for attachment. I have touched briefly on attachment in the first blog “Basic Needs” and this time will expand on the concept of attachment as a basic psychological need.
It was Harry Stack Sullivan (1968) in the 1950s who first regarded interpersonal relations as a major cause of mental disorders. It was not until John Bowlby (1968) clearly demonstrated that the most substantiated basic need for an infant is the physical proximity of a primary attachment figure, that the importance of attachment became mainstream. We know now that this crucially important aspect of human wellbeing, substantiated by many studies now, has a neurobiological foundation that sets up a child for ways he or she will interact with the world as an adult.
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