Lecture: "Children's Attachments and Adult Relationships"

“In the very little-studied depths of a newborn’s psyche, something is carved in: become someone’s— or die. There is no third. Attachment is a vital need; the level of importance is maximum. Without it, people don’t live,” Lyudmila Petranovskaya says.

• How secure and solid our bond with our parents was in childhood;
• whether we were welcomed into this world with affection, care, and calm—or with detachment;
• whether we could be comforted by the side of our “own adult,” or whether we were constantly searching for them with anxiety;
• how often parents hugged us, comforted us, understood us;
• were we confident in their love…

So much of what shapes our behavior in a couple relationship—already with the partner—is determined by the quality of childhood attachment.

Attachment theory explains and makes many of our reactions, tendencies, and ways of behaving in conflicts understandable—how we respond to this or that actions of people who are important to us.

How your attachment type was formed in childhood, how it may reflect in your current behavior, and what can be changed in it—will become clear in Lyudmila Petranovskaya’s lecture.