Alexander Cooper 
Summary of Attached 
by Amіr Levine and Rасhеl Hеllеr — The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love — A Comprehensive Summary

Summary of Attached - The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love — A Comprehensive Summary

The New Science of Adult Attachment
1. Decoding Relationship Behavior

While working in Columbia University’s Therapeutic Nursery helping mothers bond more closely with their children, Amir Levine, M.D. made an astounding discovery: the bonds adults have with their adult romantic partners mirrors the attachment bonds babies have with their mothers. This meant that attachment theory, which describes how babies and children display attachment to their mothers, is not just for children. Attachment theory continues to explain behavior toward others into adulthood.

Attachment theory describes three “attachment styles” that explain how children respond to bonding with their mothers and (in adults) how people respond to closeness and bonding in romantic relationships. These three categories are: 

● Anxious

● Avoidant

● Secure

Those in each of these three categories differ in how they view intimacy, conflict, sex, communication, and relationship expectations.

Everyone’s relationship behavior can be explained by each of these categories, which means we are all programmed with these three styles, with 50 percent of the population being secure, 20…



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