A trauma bond can significantly damage one’s mental, emotional, and physical health. Cycles of intermittent positive and negative reinforcement make it extremely hard to walk away from these ...

A trauma bond is a deep attachment that might people suffer because of a continuous cycle of physical or emotional abuse. Trauma bonds often are a part of romantic relationships and many people ...

A trauma bond is an attachment to an abuser in a relationship with a cyclical pattern of abuse. Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., coined ...

Dismissing trauma bonding as just the latest term in the pseudo-psychology zeitgeist is a mistake. If you’ve read the thinkpieces, you’ll know that many believe the way we talk about our ...

Why can it take us so long to leave the narcissist in our lives? A trauma bond could be part of the reason, according to psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton. Here, she explains how to break the toxic ...