Here are five clear lessons about closeness, distance, fear, repair and growth, the five crucial building blocks of ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. As a physician-leader, I’ve witnessed firsthand the ...

Attachment theory sounds like a complicated concept, but when you're a parent it can sometimes boil down to a crying, clinging child who does not want to be separated from you. Put simply, attachment ...

What do infants need in their early relationships? Many believe this question has a definitive answer: “What an infant needs is a secure attachment.” In some contexts, this has hardened into static ...

Likely you’ve heard someone flippantly declare that they (or you, or someone else) have “daddy issues” or “mommy issues.” While most often used as an insult, these phrases are actually rooted in ...

When people compare Asian parenting styles with Western styles of parenting, they may erroneously think it’s one simply of culture. While culture plays a significant role, one must look deeper by ...

Pascal Vrticka received funding from the Max Planck Society (Germany) for parts of his work on the social neuroscience of human attachment described in this piece. Originally rooted in developmental ...

Years ago, I sat down to dinner with a woman I liked very much. We had discovered an intense sexual connection and then tried to hang a relationship on it. But something was wrong in our romantic ...

American singles have no shortage of rubrics they can turn to for determining romantic compatibility. Some of these are more grounded in folk wisdom than others — say, zodiac sign versus Myers-Briggs ...

Children are likely to develop secure attachment by having available, sensitive, and responsive caregivers. When that’s not the case, a child may develop an insecure attachment, which can take several ...