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“Bowlby uses the notion of faulty internal working models to describe different patterns of neurotic attachment. He sees the basic problem of 'anxious attachment" as that of maintaining attachment with a care-giver who is unpredictable or rejecting. Here the internal working model will be based not on accurate representation of the self and others, but on coping, in which the care-giver must be accommodated to. The two basic strategies here are those of avoidance or adherence, which lead to avoidant or ambivalent attachment.”

Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Theory
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John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy) John Bowlby and Attachment Theory by Jeremy Holmes
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