feel that the world might be okay some of the time. During later years, as a toddler, the baby begins to learn the difference between a secure environment in which he can stop searching for trouble, and an insecure one that reverts to the trouble-searching patterns. An inborn trouble template could be part of the problems we see when attachment isn’t secure. Perhaps children who are not securely attached to their mothers are closer to a state of nature and make more use of their inner templates for anger and danger. Their worlds really are more dangerous, maybe not even because they’ve
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