In a book published last summer, Levine and Heller make the case that the type of people we are as adults and the type of relationships we establish with others is determined way back in our infancy. This idea is no stranger to psychology, of course. There have been two articles in the last two issues of PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW (see ‘Further reading’ below) which relate directly to attachment theory. Do read these when you get the opportunity.
Attachment theory can be traced back to John Bowlby in the 1940s and 1950s and his colleague Mary Ainsworth in the 1960s. Via a number of methodologies and studies they established what they believed to be different attachment types in infants. These derive out of the relationship between the infant/young child and their primary caregiver (in those days this usually was the mother).
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