Attachment Theory

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Who started attachment theory?

Attachment Theory

Attachment theory began with the work of Sigmund Freud in the early 1950s. Freud believed that an infant was born with innate survival behaviors that attracted the attention of caregivers. And that caregivers had innate responses to these attraction behaviors that caused for a reciprocol relationship to form between the two. Freud also believed in imprinting, whereas this relationship between self and caregiver made a permanent pattern in the child's inner psych. Freud believed the attachment was based purely on gratification of physical need.

   

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