What are the criticisms of the attachment theory?
Attachment is the new buzz word and in a couple of years it will be old hat and another theory or concept will be the new buzz. Great isn’t it that we supposedly put man on the moon in the 1960’s yet its taken the so called intellectuals or specialists academics a couple of hundred years to come up with attachment theory, and deciding that it is essential in understanding human behaviour! I wonder how much money has been made out of ‘attachment theory’ books pamphlets, leaflets courses and lectures? They come up with a new buzz word theory every few years, I remember the buzz word’s that have come before; empowering the individual, and organic intellectual. They say that all people have attachments! What an ambiguous statement, I strongly disagree with it, but because the specialists say this, then it becomes accepted as fact and taught as a fact at universities. I would argue that it is healthier not to have attachments, instead we have a healthy loving respectful relationship with fr
