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Post by leavethelighton on Mar 2, 2018 1:24:35 GMT
Is there anything that--based on your experience and self analysis, etc.-- you think the theories related to attachment styles may have wrong or an incomplete understanding of, ot may change in their perception of through future research?
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Lola
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Post by Lola on Mar 2, 2018 12:56:01 GMT
I think it's wrong that DAs are made to look like monsters..
I think it's wrong that APs are made to look like manipulators
Both of them have the POTENTIAL to be, but they are not by default
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Post by raco on Mar 2, 2018 14:20:12 GMT
Yes, but I'm one guy with no degree in psychology versus thousands of educated and experienced researchers around the world, my experiences are based on a ridiculously small sample of people, with no proper methodology to interpret them, and with a high risk of bias because my experiences interfere with my personal life, etc. So I tend to think I'm wrong.
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Post by Jaeger on Mar 2, 2018 15:54:15 GMT
I think it's wrong that DAs are made to look like monsters.. I think it's wrong that APs are made to look like manipulators Both of them have the POTENTIAL to be, but they are not by default I don't think they are made to look like anything. Factual information is given on tendencies over a large, researched sample size. The fact that people interpret that information to fit their own views when interpersonal troubles arise has little to do with attachment theory and more with confirmation bias, imho. |
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Post by gaynxious on Mar 2, 2018 23:15:00 GMT
I read a psychologists writings on what he believed were the flaws and limits of attachment theory.
Most of his beef was with the notions that attachment style could be intentionally changed, noting that many therapists using proposed methods for doing so had no peer reviewed scientific data.
Another critic was the notion that attachment styles were robust rather than situational, citing a study that showed most people have different attachment behaviors with different people and another showing the p values between attachment to parents and to romantic partners wasn't high enough to justify the current theoretical model of how attachment styles are created.
Not having anymore than an intro to psyc familiarity I couldn't really evaluate the information he presented but I thinks it's worth noting than none of his critique refuted the findings that relationships where one avoidantly attached person is with one anxiously attached person tend to be very unsattisfying. At least from a clinical perspective that seems to be the crucial finding of attachment theory.
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Post by leavethelighton on Mar 4, 2018 0:38:00 GMT
... Another critic was the notion that attachment styles were robust rather than situational, citing a study that showed most people have different attachment behaviors with different people and another showing the p values between attachment to parents and to romantic partners wasn't high enough to justify the current theoretical model of how attachment styles are created. ... In my personal experience there are truth to some of these critiques. I do not have the same attachment style with every person, so I'm not sure why some people see them as necessarily static and permanent identities. I wonder if some if it has to do with the limitations or biases of the surveys too, or with the fact that people focus on romantic relationships when there's implications for all relationships. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 6:33:13 GMT
I don't think DAs and APs are made out to be monsters and manipulators in the literature, rather it's their partners who tend to vent and I think the bad rep comes from relationships with the extremes of the spectrum for both groups. So most likely these DA and AP partners possess traits that are co-morbid with some other disorders.
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