Sentences with phrase «threats of abandonment»

Within the context of an inconsistent or unsafe attachment relationship, ruminative processes can be viewed as an attempt to keep the fleeting relationship alive and guard against perceived threats of abandonment and loss.

In their book Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University of Rochester identify the kinds of destructive tactics that parents use with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.

We are inherently social creatures, with extensive brain systems dedicated to detecting and coping with threats of abandonment or rejection.

By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability.

In their book Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective, Cummings and colleague Patrick Davies from the University of Rochester identify the kinds of destructive tactics that parents use with each other that harm children: verbal aggression like name - calling, insults, and threats of abandonment; physical aggression like hitting and pushing; silent tactics like avoidance, walking out, sulking or withdrawing; or even capitulation — giving in that might look like a solution but isn't a true one.

In addition to wife - beating, there are threats of abandonment, which are especially menacing to a woman whose socialization has left her without independent means of support.

However, there were too many psychological factors that were a result of Jason's witnessing of family violence, the threat of abandonment by his father and fears around loosing his mother to cancer.

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Here is a triple threat against all aspiration to autonomy, a triple abandonment of my preoccupation with myself.

He said the «unlawful and arbitrary interference» with his privacy has caused him considerable damage which includes the loss of human dignity and sense of security, a threat to his life, emotional and psychological trauma, destruction of security lights and abandonment of his private car park due to fallen debris from the structure.

Still, the abandonment of the melting pot imagery, even as an ideal — the unum to balance the pluribus, a touchstone of the more perfect union we strive to build — may be precisely the kind of «normative threat» unwittingly activating the very authoritarian impulses we must blunt and avoid if we are to keep this republic.

Abandonment: «Abandon» means to intentionally deposit, leave, or drop off any live animal without providing for the care of that animal; or in a situation where conditions present an immediate, direct, and serious threat to the life, safety, or health of the animal.

For example it may be that those with insecure resistant attachment types are drawn to parasocial relationships because they do not offer the threat of rejection or abandonment.