Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You and Keep Love

by Amir Levine

Paperback

Published April 29, 2026

About the author

Amir Levine, M.D. is a psychiatrist, molecular neuroscientist, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University.

He is the co-author of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment, which has sold over 3 million copies and been translated into 42 languages, and the author of Secure: The Revolutionary Guide to Creating a Secure Life (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2026), his follow-up book that merges attachment science with neuroscience to show how anyone can build a more secure life — at work, in friendships, in family, and within themselves.

Levine completed his adult psychiatry residency at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University, where he ranked first in his class three consecutive years, then specialized in child and adolescent psychiatry.

At Columbia, he has conducted NIH-sponsored research as a Principal Investigator alongside Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel. His clinical work led him to develop Secure Priming Therapy, a treatment approach that draws on attachment science, clinical psychology, and neuroscience to help people shift into more secure patterns of relating.