Among the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD), insecurity in one's sense of self and relationships can be seen as a fundamental feature. Fearing abandonment, alternating between ...

Our most developmentally important relationships begin in our formative years and come from our teachers, mentors, friends, and our parents or parental figures. How we connect with others is, in some ...

A study in Belgium found that maternal attachment anxiety mediates the link between childhood maltreatment and parental sense of competence. Mothers who were maltreated as children were more likely to ...

The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to attachment theory – one of the most influential frameworks in contemporary psychology – this is no ...

We come into the world screaming and vulnerable—entirely dependent on adult caregivers to keep us safe and teach us how to connect with others. The nature of these earliest relationships influences ...