Parental Bonding and Early Maladaptive Schemas

According to the prevailing theory until the mid’50s about the nature of emotional relationships, individuals were searching for contact with other people, only to ensure basics needs such as food or sexual contact. However, after the publication of studies confuting this theory, revised his attachment theory, claiming that the type of attachment developed in early infancy will afterwards affect the ability to establish relations, as well as the type and duration of relationships. 

According to the attachment theory, the quality of parent child relationship plays an important role in the psycho-emotional development of the individual. Since all infants interact with others, every human being develops an attachment bond. Even children who have been abused by a parent or caregiver, generate a kind of attachment. Forms of attachment are established depending on the preexisting experiences and the quality of the relationship with the parent or caregiver. Read More>>>>>>>>>