Quotes About Attachment

Many traumatologists see attachment disorder as one of the key symptoms of Complex PTSD.

Thankfully, I eventually realized that I had unresolved attachment issues, and sought out a Relational therapist who valued the use of her own vulnerable and emotionally authentic self as a tool in therapy.

attachment disorder in which she bonded with TV rather than with a human being. Sadly, she is still lost in that relationship living on disability in an apartment cluttered with an enormous amount of useless hoarded material.

Here we see the transition between traumatic re-enactment and healing play. The next time he held on to mommy, there was less clinging and more excited jumping.

No woman, believe me, will want to rub elbows with the dead woman you keep in your heart." (CG 254/P 9:1127) Félix, she understands, cannot detach himself from the dead Henriette. And also from himself: she accuses him of an incurable egotism. If he continues to unburden himself to other women as he has to her, they will perceive "the aridity of your heart, and you will always be unhappy

Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

attachment relationship between infant and caregiver is itself an affective bond.

Insecurity in attachment relationships is a signal of limitation in mentalizing skills. We find that the traditional classification of attachment patterns may be helpfully reinterpreted in this context as indication of a relatively good (secure attachment), or relatively poor (insecure attachment) capacity to manage or cope with intimate interpersonal relationships. An absence of mentalizing capacity under stress is signaled by the disorganization of the attachment system.

we see the self as originally an extension of experience of the other.

workers found an association between the DRD4 receptor III exon polymorphism and disorganized attachment classification in 12-month-old infants. Over the years, considerable evidence has linked behavioral problems in both children and adults with the 7-repeat allele of the DRD4 gene. In particular, ADHD has been implicated

In attachment theory, the regulation of affects serves to foster the emergence of self-regulation from coregulation. Or, put into the alternative language that Sroufe uses, this means that the regulatory system of the infant is transformed from being "dyadic" to being "individual.

during the second half of the first year, "regulation of arousal and emotion no longer depend simply on what the caregiver does, but on how the infant interprets the caregiver's accessibility and behavior

His clinical interests center around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships.

borderline individuals are specifically characterized by a fearful and preoccupied attachment style reflecting "an emotional template of intimacy anxiety/anger

a) early attachment experiences may well be key moderators of the expression of individual genotype, and (b) the primary evolutionary function of attachment may indeed be the contribution it makes to the ontogenetic creation of a mental mechanism that could serve to moderate psychosocial experiences relevant for gene expression.

lower levels of coordination are optimal for secure attachment and easy temperament;

Interpersonal interpretive processes that developmentally antedate mentalization appear to govern the behavior of individuals with BPD, at least within attachment relationships.

It is generally held that for such infants the caregiver has served as a source of both fear and reassurance, and thus arousal of the attachment behavioral system produces strong conflicting motivations. Not surprisingly, a history of prolonged or repeated separation (Chisolm 1998), intense marital conflict (Owen and Cox 1997), and severe neglect or physical or sexual abuse (Carlson, Cicchetti, Barnett, and Braunwald 1989) is often associated with this pattern.

The AAI scoring system (Main and Goldwyn 1994) classifies individuals into Secure/Autonomous, Insecure/Dismissing, Insecure/Preoccupied, or Unresolved with respect to loss or trauma—categories based on the structural qualities of narratives of early experiences.

Disorganization of attachment may be the indication of exceptionally poor mentalization.

provides empirical support for the notion that an infant's sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with the primary caregiver.

Perhaps more relevant to us from an attachment standpoint are the classic studies of rat pups separated from their mother in the first two weeks of life, who appear to incur a permanent increase in the expression of genes controlling the secretion of CRF (corticotrophin-releasing factor)

We shall argue that attachment is not an end in itself; rather, it exists in order to produce a representational system that has evolved, we may presume, to aid human survival.

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships