Psychology in Seattle.

So, Burto, I want to talk with you today

about something that's quite personal to you I think

which is about your attachment style your attachment injuries

and also how that might have led to addictive behavior or you know substance use problems

spending compulsions sure other kinds of things because I think that in our society

and even in the clinical world they don't acknowledge enough

the link between attachment injury attachment issues with what we might call

addictive behavior what do you say sounds deep and painful this is the

psychology and Seattle podcast i'm your host dr kur kana this episode is just going to be

for pages of the podcast but first I have a little bit of intro here to talk

about and I'll have you introduce yourself again later, or for the first time later.

So addiction, according to research,

mounds of research, addiction

is absolutely associated with insecure attachment.

So insecure attachment is when you're mistreated in some way either through being

abandoned as a child or abused as a child or even if as a child you had loving

parents but they just had a lot on their plate maybe

they were depressed maybe they worked a lot maybe there are too many kids in the

house you know which led to you getting a little neglect

you had loving parents you always knew your parents loved you but

they just didn't have

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