Attachment Between Infant and Caregiver An enduring emotional bond that leads the infant to experience pleasure, joy, safety, and comfort in the caregiver's company, and distress when temporarily separated. Many developmental psychologists view...

Constructs Psychosexual development Psychosocial development Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious Id, ego, and super-ego Libido • Drive Transference • Sublimation • Resistance Important Figures Sigmund Freud • Carl Jung Alfred Adler •...

Attachment Theory Attachment From Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies Klaus E Grossman, Karin Grossman, Everett Waters, editors. New York (NY): Guilford Press; 2005. 332 p. US$40.00. Reviewer rating: Excellent When a new scientific text lands on one's desk, a book...

Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture* Family systems theory and attachment theory have important similarities and complementarities. Here we consider two areas in which the theories converge: (a) in family system theorists' description of an overly close, or "enmeshed," mother-child dyad, which...

If you’ve ever “needed space,” complained that your partner wouldn’t “open up,” or felt like you could “really be yourself” around someone, Pat Love, EdD, can tell you why. Tango asked the relationship expert to decode attachment theory: the three ways in which people respond...

Discusses the evidence that attachment relationships in early childhood can have positive and negative consequences.