Sentences with phrase «avoidant attachment systems»
This defense is possible because adults with dismissive - avoidant attachment systems can suppress their feelings in response to a partner becoming too close — which is often a trigger for their escape.
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Addiction to «alone time»: Avoidant attachment, narcissism, and a one - person psychology within a two - person psychological system.
When the avoidant partner senses a threat, such as their partner getting too close, they deactivate their attachment system and create distance.
Like Bowlby, Ainsworth also believed in the control systems but went a step further with the Strange Situation, which splits attachment up into three types: secure, avoidant, and resistant.
In fact, sometimes it's really an overactive Attachment System, switched into high gear by the Avoidant's distancing.
The ANP may also display avoidant attachment, and the EP can be secondarily dissociated into an additional EP that represents the attachment system (i.e., the childlike part of the personality that loves the perpetrating parent; the part of the personality that desires attachment to a «stronger and wiser» therapist, etc.), and an EP that represents the defensive system.
In contrast, those with avoidant attachment tendencies will hypoactivate their attachment system and distance themselves from others during threat as a means of coping.