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Attachment Styles: An Intro To John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth’s Groundbreaking Work

What Are the 4 Attachment Styles? What Are Coping Mechanisms, and Why Do They Cause Problems in Adulthood?

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Joe Gibson
May 27, 2024
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What Are the 4 Attachment Styles? What Are Coping Mechanisms, and Why Do They Cause Problems in Adulthood?

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Thank you for clicking on. This is the beginning of a series in which I explain how attachment styles show up in adulthood through the lens of the very first experiments done on attachment theory. Personally, I ha…

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