The styles come from attachment theory, which arose in the late 1960s out of work conducted by psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Bowlby hypothesized that if young children did not form ...

The popular notion of attachment style is seen by many as a way of understanding adult personality and relationships. But a new study suggests that the ways it's being measured need considerable work.

It is therefore fundamental to identify the attachment styles and relational patterns in patients receiving counselling and psychological treatments focussed on sexual problems.