Please Find Attached
How Attachment Theory Explains Our Relationships
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2025
384 pages
978-1-4729-8804-1 (ISBN)
Description
'Attachment theory is everywhere, but is everything you've heard about it right? Laura Mucha explains it all. Learn how to better understand yourself and your relationships, and how to improve them.' - Fearne Cotton
Do you over-analyse relationships? Or do you avoid thinking about them altogether? How do you think your childhood impacts you and your relationships?
In Please Find Attached seven people talk candidly about their upbringings, loves and losses. Delving deep into their lives, Laura Mucha explains everything you need to know about attachment theory, the most well-researched relationship science, and how it can make sense of our lives.
Please Find Attached explores why you think, feel and behave the way you do with loved ones, and helps you have better relationships as a result.
Do you over-analyse relationships? Or do you avoid thinking about them altogether? How do you think your childhood impacts you and your relationships?
In Please Find Attached seven people talk candidly about their upbringings, loves and losses. Delving deep into their lives, Laura Mucha explains everything you need to know about attachment theory, the most well-researched relationship science, and how it can make sense of our lives.
Please Find Attached explores why you think, feel and behave the way you do with loved ones, and helps you have better relationships as a result.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-8804-1 (9781472988041)
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01/2025
Bloomsbury Sigma
€24.00
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Person
Laura Mucha is a poet and Author-in-Residence in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Her writing has won multiple international awards and been featured on TV, radio and public transport, as well as in hospitals, hospices, prisons, books, magazines and newspapers around the world.
Content
- Cover
- Advance praise
- Half Title
- Some other titles in the Bloomsbury Sigma series:
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Early Childhood
- John Bowlby: The Birth of Attachment Theory
- Strange Situations
- Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Minnesota Study
- Chapter Two: Late Childhood
- Disorganised Attachment: A Disruption of The Attachment System
- Being There: And What Exactly that Means
- Chapter Three: Teens
- Mental Health: Summer Camp Studies
- The straight and Narrow: developmental Pathways
- Chapter Four: Young Adult
- Surprising the Unconscious: The Adult Attachment Interview
- The Ray Conundrum: Dismissive Attachment
- The Shadow of Trauma: Unresolved Attachment
- Chapter Five: Settling Down
- Matt's Story: Earning Security
- The Truth About Skyler: Unresolved Loss
- Romantic Relationships: A New Theory of Attachment
- Chapter Six: Looking for Answers
- Getting Closer: Building Security
- Boxes and Self-Preservation
- Chapter Seven: Reflecting and Grieving
- Boxing Off Emotions: Attachment and Grief
- Freedom Through Reflection
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements
- Recommended Reading
- Index
