Welcome to Therapist Uncensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters.

Welcome to Therapist Unsensored. I am Sue Marriott and I am Ann Kelly. Welcome to

today's episode. So today we're going to talk about attachment and we're going to

talk about the

continuum of attachment all the way over to the right and what we call the red the anxious

preoccupied attachment category. So let's stop for just a second for those of you that this isn't familiar too and

Sue why don't you tap in what are we talking about? So what you might want to do

because we don't want to just repeat things over and over on these episodes but at the same time we know that somebody might be just tuning in.

So if you go back one episode to 59 we cover more of the basics and we're going to jump in a little bit

further than that this time.

And also in episode 37 we talk about disorganized attachment,

organizing the disorganized.

And basically what the research shows is that there are four roughly organized categories.

That's one way to think of it.

From a research perspective that are pretty stable, lots of research that shows that this is very solid findings, right?

Organized categories of attachments.

Organized categories of attachment. There's organized secure, organized and secure, which is two different ones, which is preoccupied and

dismissive, and then there's something called disorganized. So that's just a quick,

very, very fast review. In an episode 59, we gave a pretty detailed description of dismissive attachment.

That's right and we've also spoken the only reason we're covering this again is because we're going to jump right into preoccupied.

But we've also covered the difference between these categories, which are the internal working

models.

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