Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

1 review

hale7's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

A really good intro to the concept of adult attachment and how to change them. Fern makes a good case for approaching nonmonogamy from an attachment framework, but she doesn’t do the work of explaining how attachment theory is currently only constructed for middle class white (and Global North) nuclear families. More nuance is needed to account for intersectionality

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse