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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 132,846 ratings — published 2010
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The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,825 ratings — published 2019
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Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,665 ratings — published 2012
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Hold Me Tight Hold Me Tight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 23,830 ratings — published 2008
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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 17,366 ratings — published 2020
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Attachment in Psychotherapy Attachment in Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,876 ratings — published 2007
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Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,432 ratings — published 1994
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Insecure in Love: How Anxious Attachment Can Make You Feel Jealous, Needy, and Worried and What You Can Do About It Insecure in Love: How Anxious Attachment Can Make You Feel Jealous, Needy, and Worried and What You Can Do About It (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,575 ratings — published 2014
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Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
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avg rating 4.31 — 715 ratings — published
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Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,569 ratings — published
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Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 155 ratings — published 2016
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A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,088 ratings — published 1988
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Attachment Attachment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 685 ratings — published 1969
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 103,001 ratings — published 2015
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Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,450 ratings — published
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Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships (Dr. Sue Johnson Collection #2) Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships (Dr. Sue Johnson Collection #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,789 ratings — published 2013
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Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 74 ratings — published 2007
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The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,834 ratings — published 1999
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John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy) John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy)
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avg rating 4.21 — 223 ratings — published 1993
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Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 7,012 ratings — published 2021
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 308,375 ratings — published 2014
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Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,098 ratings — published 2003
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Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 962 ratings — published
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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 8,696 ratings — published 2022
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Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)) Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
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avg rating 4.33 — 310 ratings — published 2010
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The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Routledge Classics) The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 4.05 — 394 ratings — published 1979
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Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.33 — 524 ratings — published
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Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 3,464 ratings — published
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Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into the Science of Attachment Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into the Science of Attachment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as attachment)
avg rating 3.97 — 650 ratings — published 2020
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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 115 ratings — published 1999
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Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 330 ratings — published 2013
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Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 13,298 ratings — published 2004
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Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)) Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
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avg rating 4.19 — 222 ratings — published 2008
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Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2) Separation: Anxiety and Anger (Attachment & Loss #2)
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avg rating 4.24 — 222 ratings — published 1972
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Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 131 ratings — published
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 52,032 ratings — published 1986
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 12,142 ratings — published 2018
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Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,129 ratings — published 2013
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Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,193 ratings — published 2016
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The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 964 ratings — published 2013
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A General Theory of Love (Vintage) A General Theory of Love (Vintage)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,986 ratings — published 2000
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Love Me, Don't Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships Love Me, Don't Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,369 ratings — published 2014
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Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 3,105 ratings — published 2009
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The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 653 ratings — published 2018
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Avoidant: How to Love (or Leave) a Dismissive Partner Avoidant: How to Love (or Leave) a Dismissive Partner
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avg rating 3.80 — 695 ratings — published 2014
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Judith Lewis Herman
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.”
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“You only lose what you cling to.”
Guatama Buddha

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