Children Quote by Richard Bromfield

“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship and to…

— Gabor Maté

“Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.”

— Asa Don Brown

“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

“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

“Some children grow up with parents whi have their own strong attachment issues: they experience their parents as sometimes emotionally available, sometimes scared, and…

— Leslie Becker-Phelps

“They behave towards their therapists as they perceive themselves to have been treated by their absent parents. They make their therapists feel very fully…

— Ved P. Varma

“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

“Attachment, we have noted, does its work invisibly. People who out of pure instinct have created a good attachment relationship with their child will…

— Gabor Maté

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

“I see so many situations where a child is in the midst of plenty, a virtual banquet spread out before him, but is suffering…

— Gabor Maté

“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

“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary attachments to…

— Judith Lewis Herman