Attached
by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller · Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Levine and Heller translate adult attachment research into three styles - anxious, avoidant, secure - and show how pairings produce recurring conflict. Readers learn to identify their own pattern, read a partner's, and communicate needs directly.
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