Misconceptions About Attachment

March 17, 2023

Attachment theory is a theory of human development first developed by British psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth in the 1950s and 60s. Bowlby and Ainsworth observed the ways infants attached to their primary caregivers and organized their emotional experiences based on the caregiver’s behaviors. An infant may develop an “anxious” pattern of relating in…
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