A plethora of misconceptions about attachment and attachment styles abound on social media. Here, four of the most common, ...

In the field of psychology, attachment theory proposes that interpersonal experiences early in life should shape how people ...

A survey in the Czech Republic found that individuals who had poor relationships with their parents were more likely to have ...

In the follow up, Dugan and her team evaluated the attachment styles and relationship quality of the now-adult participants, ...

Do you have a friend who gets unusually emotional when you don’t text back quickly enough? Perhaps you’re the friend who’s ready to end a friendship when someone is ‘moving funny’ without stopping to ...

Our relationships with our parents lay the foundation for our future connections with others, shaping the way we navigate emotional bonds well into adulthood. Attachment expert, author, and therapist ...

Insecure Attachment in Children of Narcissists Children raised in narcissistic families face a terrible reality. From infancy forward, the people they rely on to meet their dependency needs for ...

It should come as no great surprise that mothers have profound influence on their children. But what about mothers who have their own personality disorder symptoms, such as problems getting along with ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a baby obesity epidemic. A quarter of our 2 to 5-year-olds are now overweight, according to a study published in JAMA in 2012, and a child’s obesity at age 5 is a strong ...