Adult Attachment Disorder
STAR is one of a few programs that includes adult attachment disorder, which forms the root of many problems. Attachment is considered to be a basic neurobiological adaptive system in the early developing brain that influences and organizes emotional motivational and memory processes. It becomes an individual’s ingrained model of relating.
Ideally, the system is designed to provide a safe haven giving the infant security to explore the environment, to have a sense of well being, and to experience healthy collaborative interpersonal relationships. When this system is discordant, the infant’s brain programs protractive styles of relating such as avoidance, ambivalent, anxious or internal disorganization.
Co-dependency, addictions, fears of intimacy, rigidity, and wanting to hurt or be hurt are a few issues which are rooted in formative attachment relationships. Later experiences, of course, also have an impact either negatively or positively. It is powerful and healing to uncover early attachment programs and with that awareness begin to replace old dysfunctional patterns to renew and revitalize your ways of being in your life.
