Attachment Quote by Asa Don Brown

“The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Attachment. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base; an unbreakable or perceivable inability to shatter to…

— Asa Don Brown

“... in children, security or insecurity of attachment is not a characteristic of the individual, but rather of a relationship: it is not uncommon…

— Anonymous

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment…

— Warwick Middleton

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there…

— Melissa Febos

“A securely attached child will store an internal working model of a responsive, loving, reliable care-giver, and of a self that is worthy of…

— Jeremy Holmes

“Attachment begins early but grows slowly. There are no shortcuts. Verbal guarantees of safety or nurturance carry no more weight than those for hair-replacement…

— Richard Bromfield

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“A child’s sense of secure attachment—this idea that I, in all my glory, as well as all my stinkiness and imperfection, am loved and…

— Susan David

“likely to form a secure attachment. The less secure the relationship attachments in our first two years, the harder it is to have good…

— Heather Hans

The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between two people,…

— Sandra Scarr

“When we focus narrowly on what we should be doing, we become blind to our attachment relationship with our children and its inadequacies. Parenthood…

— Gabor Maté