Quotes by : Jeremy Holmes

The ambivalent strategy involves clinging to the care-giver, often with excessive submissiveness, or....

A securely attached child will store an internal working model of a responsive, loving, reliable care-giver,....

Bowlby uses the notion of faulty internal working models to describe different patterns of neurotic attachment.....

Attachment exerted an invisible but powerful pull on the child, just as heavenly bodies are connected....

Bowlby's conviction that attachment needs continue throughout life and are not outgrown has important....

A person's attachment status is a fundamental determinant of their relationships, and this is reflected....

To feel attached is to feel safe and secure. By contrast, an insecurely attached person may have a mixture....

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and....

The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important....

John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle....