Disorganized attachment, often linked to trauma or fear-inducing caregiving, combines both approach and avoidance behaviors — wanting comfort, but also fearing it. In psychological research, secure, ...

The mystery behind these communication patterns might have less to do with what you’re saying and more to do with something formed before you could even speak — your attachment style.

Back in the ’50s, psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth developed a theory that all people have one of four general attachment styles: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized.

This heightened neural response helps explain the intense fear of abandonment and need for constant reassurance characteristic of this attachment style. Disorganized attachment, often resulting ...

But its effect on relationships can be serious. "Disorganized attachment is less popularly known because it is the least common attachment style," she told Newsweek. "This attachment style is ...

Known formally as attachment theory, people usually have one of four different attachment styles. Disorganized attachment (also known as fearful-avoidant attachment) is one of those four ...

(Disorganized attachment is a severe form of insecure attachment, with unpredictable coping mechanisms, often tied to trauma.) In her book, Menanno offers insight not only into our different ...

Though attachment theory was technically coined by John Bowlby in the early 20th century, everyone knows it was Katy Perry who invented disorganized attachment in 2008 when she sang “You’re ...