Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love

The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relate to others as adults? Why do we repeat with our own children-seemingly against our will-the very behaviors we most disliked about our parents? In Becoming Attached, psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insig...