Therapist Uncensored Podcast TU37: Organizing The Disorganized – Understanding The Elusive Attachment Category
Jul 18, 2017
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Attachment Is A Survival Strategy
- Attachment styles are survival strategies learned in infancy that shape how we read caregivers and stay safe.
- These patterns predict social, emotional, and health outcomes across the lifespan.
Disorganized Emerged From Research Puzzles
- Researchers found a group of children whose behaviors didn't fit organized categories, prompting a separate classification.
- That distinct pattern became called disorganized attachment because it lacked a coherent strategy to stay safe.
Disorganization Cuts Across Attachment Types
- Disorganization runs across other attachment tendencies and often appears under stress or when trauma is triggered.
- Trauma, loss, and frightening caregivers make people appear momentarily unorganized or dysregulated.