I was recently thinking about what we mean when we say the word ‘childlike’. Wonder and curiosity, or a tendency to become hijacked by strong, poorly understood emotions? While the latter may be the case children also tend to be more in tune with their bodies and their ‘felt sense’ (Levine, 1997) than adults. As …
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Attachment theory is focused on the relationships and bonds between people, particularly long-term relationships, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. Bowlby Theory British psychologist John Bowlby was the first attachment theorist, describing attachment as a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.” Bowlby was interested in understanding the separation anxiety and …
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Self-harm or deliberate self-harm is where you inflict physical harm on yourself usually in secret and often without anyone else knowing. The most common form of self-harm is skin cutting but it can cover a wide range of behaviours including burning, scratching, biting, banging or hitting your whole body, picking at sores on your skin, …
