developmental trauma

Insecure Attachment in Adults

May 3, 2018 by Ray Baskerville

Insecure Attachment Behaviour Styles in Adults Each of the styles of insecure attachment in adults were survival strategies for them as an infant. For adult clients, they obviously worked well enough to that end. Likely now as adults they create limitations, and unconsciously driven feelings and behaviours in the domain of relationship. These different … [Read more...] about Insecure Attachment in Adults

Understanding Attachment Theory

April 30, 2018 by Ray Baskerville

In this article, I will give an overview of the basics of attachment theory as pertaining to early life experiences. When we are born, we are helpless and defenseless and utterly dependent on our primary carers (who I will refer to as mother, regardless of who it was in reality). From birth, we are learning about relationship, in relationship. We are … [Read more...] about Understanding Attachment Theory

Mindfulness in Therapy

Most people are now familiar with mindfulness as a meditation practice, but how does mindfulness in therapy work? How is it that the mindful presence of another in a therapeutic or just humanly intimate setting can facilitate the emerging and potentially healing and integration of the wounding within us? What is it about the presence […]

Mindfulness and Mental Health

Mindfulness can have many benefits for our mental health. What mindfulness does is experientially open the space between the observer and the observed. The observer is our ‘Being’, some call this ‘True Self’, or capital ‘S’ Self, which for me is problematic as there does not seem to be anything within the nature of ‘Being’ […]

Insecure Attachment – Why Understanding it is Important

One of the significant impacts of insecure attachment, ie, attachment trauma, is the implicit beliefs about ourselves that arise from it. These beliefs tend to be of a very similar nature, along the lines of, there’s something wrong with me, I’m unlovable, I’m broken, nobody loves me, I’m bad, and, i have to hide my […]

Insecure Attachment in the Right Brain

Insecure attachment is becoming increasingly well understood. The research of neuroscience continues to give ever increasing detail and validation to attachment theory, first purported by John Bowlby more than half a century ago. Over the past decade, it has become abundantly clear that the in utero and immediate postnatal environments, and the one on one […]

Insecure Attachment in Adults

Understanding Attachment Theory

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