Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'
Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love, by Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
2 reviews
zombiezami's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
4.0
This was a really helpful and approachable introduction to the topic of attachment styles. I understand my own attachment style better, and I can better understand why certain past relationships happened the way that they did.
The book is rather heteronormative, though. Also, I feel like, by focusing on attachment styles as a sole cause of friction in relationships, they overlook when conflicts are a result of outright abuse, rather than incompatibility or different intimacy needs. The relationship with Craig in Chapter 10 strikes me as very verbally abusive, for example.
I also wish that the authors had gone into more detail about the anxious-avoidant attachment style. Other than saying it was really rare, they didn't seem to give many (or any) examples of it.
The book is rather heteronormative, though. Also, I feel like, by focusing on attachment styles as a sole cause of friction in relationships, they overlook when conflicts are a result of outright abuse, rather than incompatibility or different intimacy needs. The relationship with Craig in Chapter 10 strikes me as very verbally abusive, for example.
I also wish that the authors had gone into more detail about the anxious-avoidant attachment style. Other than saying it was really rare, they didn't seem to give many (or any) examples of it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Gaslighting
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Cursing, and Pregnancy
vivikasweiven's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse
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