The release date for the English version of 'Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love' by
Amir Levine is Dec 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Is it possible to love a science?
Amir Levine, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller, a psychologist, share in this ground-breaking book how attachment theory—the most sophisticated relationship science available today—can assist us in finding and maintaining love. Numerous best-selling books on parent-child interactions are based on attachment theory; yet, up until now, there hasn't been an approachable manual explaining what this intriguing research has to say about love relationships in adulthood.
The British psychologist and psychotherapist John Bowlby, who studied the profound influence that our early ties with our parents or caregivers have on the individuals we become in the 1950s, is credited with developing attachment theory. The finding that our innate need for intimate relationships with one or more people is genetically based is another fundamental finding of attachment theory.
Levine and Heller show how these evolutionary forces still mold us into the people we are in relationships today in their book Attached. Every individual acts in relationships in one of three ways, according to attachment theory:
*ANXIOUS persons often worry about their partner's capacity to love them back and are consumed with their relationships.
*AVOIDANT persons always want to limit proximity because they believe that intimacy equates to a loss of independence.
* SECURE individuals are often warm and kind and feel at ease in intimate situations.
The book Attached helps readers identify the attachment type that they and their partner—or potential partners—follow. Additionally, it provides a plethora of guidance to readers on how to manage their relationships more intelligently in light of both their own and their partner's attachment styles. With its perceptive examination of the science behind love, Attached provides readers with a roadmap for creating more meaningful and lasting relationships.