Attachment Theory - Isis

attachment theory, er which john balby em developed and the many, many others since then have taken forward. It's a marvellously powerful way of looking how human beings operate in relation to each other. We're evolutionarily set up to approach our perceived safe haven when we feel that stress. So you are going to move towards the fear, the frightening figure, in order to try to get comfort from that figure. This is an unresolvable paradox sine it doesn't work like this. And what will happen if you're isolated from any alternate sources of comfort? You'll end up running away or fighting it rather than embracing it. That would be a better response for most people

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