Welcome to Therapists on Censur,'m Patty. And I'm Sue. And I'm

Anne Kelly. Today we're going to talk about the spectrum of attachment.

We're going to take the concept that we've been referencing and talking about for quite a while

throughout our podcast and really delve a little bit deeper into it and do some

more research-based broadening of our understanding of it.

That's right.

You know, a lot of times when people talk about attachment they're actually talking about the research which you know if you're familiar with it goes back to Bulby and Maine and

Ain's worth which is incredible groundbreaking research.

And we'll quickly summarize it in just a moment.

But that has been back starting in the 50s, all the way to the late 80s and there's been a lot of things

that have happened since then and so this episode is going to really bring us

more up to date but not all the way because there's just too much to cover. So we're going to do one step in it and then we're going to do a progressive through different episodes.

Do little pieces. So today we're going to talk about, we're going to introduce the idea of it being on a spectrum rather than a quadrant

So so for those listeners out there that aren't going oh exactly knowing exactly what we're talking about.

Could you just briefly kind of...

Somebody doesn't know what attachment is.

There might be people that are not into the total cycle babble we are.

But they haven't heard all of our episodes.

Including mine and Tracy's at the very beginning.

That might be shocking, but in case they're a new listener,

and let's just think about it as what is in a quick and dirty way maybe not so dirty. What is make it very

dirty? What is attachment and why do I care? I think attachment is a biologically based drive that makes mammals stay close to

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