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The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find love and keep it. Codependent, symbiotic fused... Until recently, therapists considered the tendency to hold on to an unsatisfying relationship as a personality disorder. In this groundbreaking title, neurologist and psychiatrist Amir Levin together with social psychologist Rachel Heller dismantle the myth of "women who love too much" and demonstrate, with contrasted data and revealing examples, that, far from being a dysfunction, the need to Feeling safe with another person is engraved in our genes. We are biologically programmed to depend on other people just as a child depends on its mother. Based on the theories of psychologist John Bowlby, who was the first to define the need for attachment for correct development in childhood, they define three types of attachment: secure, anxious and avoidant. Finding out what type of attachment dominates our relationships and transforming it into a secure and stable one will allow us to establish healthy and satisfying bonds.