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Today, I'm going to be going through attachment therapy and how to utilize it in the work

that we do in psychotherapy and psychiatry and building a therapeutic alliance.

And so here we go.

The basics of attachment, I'm going to talk about that first, attachment and infants is

primarily a process of proximity seeking to an identified attachment figure in situations

of perceived distress or alarm for the primary purpose of connection.

And so you have this child, especially the first couple years of life, and their seeking

proximity to attachment figures, especially when there's some sort of distress or alarm

or something scary for the purpose of connection.

And so one of the main drivers of infants in the midst of their development is actually

to seek out connection.

And so attachment patterns that form early on lead to expectations or anticipations of

how future relationships will unfold.

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