Abuse-survivors Quote by Warwick Middleton

“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

“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

“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

“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions…

— Judith Spencer

Attachment leads to suffering.

— Anonymous

“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

“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

“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

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

— Sean Leon

“SELFHOOD AND DISSOCIATION The patient with DID or dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) has used their capacity to psychologically remove themselves from repetitive…

— Warwick Middleton

“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