Amir Levine
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm very glad that you asked.
I mean, obviously, it's been my bread and butter.
I think the way that I like to think about attachment is that it's almost like a safety radar.
It's how we feel safe in the world.
As a social species, we feel safe through other people.
The father of adult attachment is John Bowlby, and
he actually came to the conclusion that attachment, that our need to be connected to others is a basic need, just like food and water.
And at the time, it was a strange notion because people thought that babies attach because the mother feeds them and the mother gives them sustenance and it's a byproduct.
But John Bowlby actually came around and said, no, it's actually a basic need.
And he came up with that because he, during World War II, he worked in England during the Blitz and he saw all these displaced kids and that even though they were given everything they needed in terms of food and sustenance and they were well taken care of, they failed to thrive because they didn't have that connection, which is really essential for all of us.
Exactly.
But Balbi also said that attachment, our attachment needs like stay with us throughout our whole lifetime from birth to the grave, basically.
That's what he said.
And so we still have the same attachment in our circuitry and we still need to maintain that connection even into adulthood.
It's just like the attachment behaviors are much easier to see when we're children, but they still exist as adults
And so, and then came along Mary Ainsworth and she found that we actually have, like initially she discovered these three attachment styles and then the fourth attachment style was discovered.
So she added on to that knowledge that we don't all behave in the same way when we attach to other people.
I'm so glad you said that because you just took the words right out of my mouth.
This is what you just said is one of the most important things that people should know about our attachment styles.
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