Here are five clear lessons about closeness, distance, fear, repair and growth, the five crucial building blocks of attachment.

Attachment theory sounds like a complicated concept, but when you're a parent it can sometimes boil down to a crying, clinging child who does not want to be separated from you. Put simply, attachment ...

Attachment theory, initially developed by John Bowlby in the 1950s, posits that bonds formed between children and their primary caregivers have profound effects on their emotional development and ...

Sheri Madigan receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation, an anonymous donor, and ...

Attachment-based therapy is a type of talk therapy that may help a person manage attachment issues that began in childhood. This may help the person develop more secure attachments with others.

Pascal Vrticka received funding from the Max Planck Society (Germany) for parts of his work on the social neuroscience of human attachment described in this piece. Originally rooted in developmental ...