Adult Attachment Theory
EFT: Attachment Science in PracticeAttachment theory became adult attachment theory through the amazing work of social psychologists and other researchers. Who, in the mid 1980s, put an ad in the newspaper, serving adults to see if there was relevance, to see if there was application of theory in adult love relationships. What that data showed is that it's true. In fact, that we all need the felt sense of someone important having our backs cradle to grave. That attachment theory wasn't just between parents and children, and that when children became twelve or fourteen or sixteen years old, they outgrew the need for a safe part of other, they outgrew the need for comfort contact.
That even high functioning well-educated successful adults still needed to know. Actually, not know, but feel that someone important have their back. Adult attachment is an extension of the earlier parent-child attachment literature. There are some shifts. There are some nuance changes in it, but adult attachment is now a robot rigorous theory empirically validated, thousands of studies have used adult attachment theory to help us understand the nature of love to help us understand health and how important it is to have a loved one to ensure your cardiovascular health, your immune system functioning.
So for all kinds of reasons, across industries, we're understanding the importance of feeling connected, and that adult attachment helps us make sense of the need all humans to feel connected.