If your child suffers from separation anxiety and low self-confidence, they might have developed what psychologists call an ...

As an intern at The Cambridge Hospital, I (EB) was assigned an international attachment expert, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, as a psychological testing supervisor. During lulls in the testing, we met and ...

In the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, orphanages and foundling homes had shockingly high mortality rates. For example, the Dusseldorf nursery—a well funded, clean, and 'scientific' ...

MPR News guest host Kelly Gordon and early childhood education reporter Kyra Miles talk with a developmental psychologist about how to create parent-child attachment and how to know if we’re getting ...

New research has found that there is no link between bed sharing, infant-mother attachment, and infant behavioral outcomes. New research led by the University of Kent has found that there is no link ...

Attachment disorder is a condition that disrupts a person’s ability to form and maintain healthy emotional bonds with others.

Early relational health emerges from various factors spanning multiple domains of influence. Individuals, familial and extrafamilial relationships, community organizations and systems, public policy, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Attachment injuries encompass a spectrum of experiences that ...