According to psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine, each of us has one of three distinct attachment styles that describe our behavior in a relationship: anxious, secure, or avoidant. Knowing your own style—and figuring out the attachment styles of others—can make a big difference in how we manage our close relationships and help us find contentment in them.
Drawing on his book Attached, co-authored with Rachel S.F. Heller, Levine presents research in psychology and neuroscience related to attachment. He shares case studies that reveal intriguing approaches to the perennial search for finding—or strategies for improving—relationships.
Levine follows the discussion with an invitation to the audience to try exercises that teach practical tools he created based on attachment and neuroscience research to improve relationships. Levine introduces you to ways of navigating the dating process and choosing the right match for you, if you are dating, and helps you avoid relationship pitfalls, if you are already in a relationship. You will begin to learn how to adopt secure relationship strategies that will last for a lifetime.
Levine, a New York-based psychiatrist, is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Society for Neuroscience.
