Talk:Adult attachment disorder

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Nice work on your draft. A few things I still recommend doing before moving this to mainspace Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:54, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added a citation needed tag to the end of one paragraph that seems largely without citations.
 * I'm a little concerned about your sources in general. You should be looking for peer reviewed science, preferably ones that try to synthesize the existing literature (as opposed to ones that document individual research studies).
 * Adult Attachment Theory and Research: A Brief Overview - this is a website written by an academic, and he's published a book on the topic, so it isn't terrible, but it would have been much better to track down the book he refers to and use that.
 * On the other hand, healthyplace.com, helpguide.org, and fulsheartransition.com aren't scholarly sources, and they many, just barely meet Wikipedia's requirements for reliable sources, but not for psychological or medical topics. Based on their About us page, psychologenie.com isn't anywhere near to a reliable source.
 * While you can and should link to other Wikipedia articles, you can't use Wikipedia as a source like you did in the "Adult Attachment Disorder in Society and Culture". And sources need to support the claims made; to say that Hitler had adult attachment disorder, you'd need a source that says so.
 * References [10] and [11] are blank.
 * Section headers should use sentence capitalization, not title capitalization (only capitalize the first word and any proper nouns) and shouldn't repeat the title of the article. So "Adult Attachment Disorder's Symptoms and Specifics" should be "Symptoms and specifics"
 * Only bold the article title the first time it's used in the opening sentence of the lead section.
 * References go after punctuation, not before, and shouldn't have spaces between them and the preceding text, or between references.

Many of the claims in this entry extrapolate from what the source was saying. Although I don't have time to go over the whole article, I removed a large chunk in the second paragraph of the "symptoms" section because the source used makes no reference of adult attachment when describing how ambivalent children often "punish" their caretakers when they return. In other words, the text I removed commits original research, which violates Wikipedia policy.

Also, I feel obligated to say that it is simply not true that those with the adult anxious/ambivalent attachment style "punish" their caretakers. This is a frustratingly outrageous claim, and I was upset to see it in a Wikipedia entry where it may mislead and misinform others. "Ambivalence" towards a caretaker or romantic partner does not imply punishing them when they return. No offense, but this should seem obvious to anybody who studies attachment styles.

Johnrobmiller (talk) 07:08, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

The selective list of people who may have had attachment disorder is misleading in its selectiveness. The list implies that people with attachment disorder are gravely evil (the majority are not), and that it is caused primarily by terrible parents, or that parents are always to blame. It neeeds the addition of examples that do not fit that narrow type, such as those who experienced long separations for non-abusive reasons (hospitalization, death, etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.135.62.148 (talk) 00:17, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Disorganized attachment?
Hi, this is probably a matter of terminology, but I think disorganized attachment should be mentioned somewhere in this article. I imagine it is similar to "anxious and avoidant"(?). I would take care of this myself, but I lack the background in psychology to really approach it right now.

While I understand that there are differing, possibly even incompatible, frameworks for particular behaviours, I would also suggest that a truly encyclopedic article should take account of such things.

Grant &#124;  Talk  03:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

I think that this article could use more information about adult attachment to support the overall topic. There is research on Adult attachment theory and I think this article could use some more headings with more information. I also think that the article could go more in depth on the four categories of adult attachment. Toriwomack5 (talk) 00:51, 14 January 2023 (UTC)