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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

David Wallin: A Good Marriage, Therapy, and Meditation—Three Keys to Healing Attachment Wounds

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

David Wallin, PhD, is a practicing psychologist whose work on attachment theory has shaped related fields for decades. The author of the classic text Attachment in Psychotherapy, David has partnered with Sounds True to offer the online course Attachment in the Practice of Psychotherapy: Relational Transformation, Nonverbal Experience, and the Psychology of the Therapist. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, David and Tami Simon discuss the basics of attachment theory—specifically how our early childhood experiences influence social patterns later in life. They speak on the four general attachment patterns and the three factors that help influence these patterns for the better. Finally, David and Tami talk about what it takes to raise a securely attached child, including the importance of making room for a child's entire inner life. (69 minutes)

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This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.

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At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio

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learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events. At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves

0:17.1

as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey, offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.

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Sounds True.com, guest is David Wallen.

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David Wallen is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Albany and Mill Valley, California,

0:51.5

who has been practicing, teaching, and writing about psychotherapy for more than three

0:56.5

decades.

0:58.0

His classic book, Attachment in Psychotherapy, has been translated into 10 languages.

1:05.0

He's lectured on attachment and psychotherapy in Australia, Europe, Canada,

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and throughout the United States.

1:13.2

With sounds true, David Wallin is offering a new eight-week online course called

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Attachment in the Practice of Psychotherapy, relational transformation, nonverbal experience, and

1:28.0

the psychology of the therapist.

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This is a course that begins on September 11th, 2017, and you are welcome to find out more at

1:38.1

sounds true.com.

1:40.2

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, David and I spoke about how our early life experiences

1:48.0

can lead to either secure or insecure attachment and how to understand the four different attachment patterns or styles

1:58.0

that are now widely accepted in psychological research.

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We also talked about how accepted in psychological research.

2:03.2

We also talked about how in David's own experience,

2:07.2

there have been three big healing factors pointing him

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