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Attachment Disorder Quotes

“What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self.”

Attachment Abusive Parents Child Neglect Child Trauma Attachment Disorder

Author:John Bowlby

“Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality – and everything that couldn't be counted upon.”

Trust Attachment Attachment Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Six months after Lucien traveled to Australia, Mum left her son, her parents, her brothers and sisters, her work, her friends and her country, sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, across the Indian Ocean, into the Pacific and joined her husband in Sydney to start a new life. That's the sort of thing people did back then. Everyone was starting again after the war, after losing mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, children, husbands and wives. It seems shocking now, but there wasn't such a sentimental attitude towards family or such a fear of death then as we have now. (People who live through wars often develop attachment disorders as protection from loss.)”

New Life New Beginnings Leaving Home Leaving The Past War Survivor Attachment Disorder

Book:To Throw Away Unopened

Source: To Throw Away Unopened

“Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach.”

Love Attachment Americans Dysfunctional Family Lack Of Love Emotional Neglect Focus On Success Overachiever Dysfunctional Relationships Attachment Trauma Unloving Overachievement Overachievers Attachment Disorder

Book:A General Theory of Love

Source: A General Theory of Love