Avoidant Attachment Books

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,116,065 ratings — published 2024
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 125,967 ratings — published 2010
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And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings, #2) And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings, #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 44,854 ratings — published 2026
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Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1) Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 179,275 ratings — published 2021
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If It Makes You Happy If It Makes You Happy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 83,516 ratings — published 2025
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Passion Project Passion Project (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 36,398 ratings — published 2025
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Book Lovers Book Lovers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,596,758 ratings — published 2022
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It's Different This Time It's Different This Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 30,297 ratings — published 2025
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One Golden Summer One Golden Summer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 460,628 ratings — published 2025
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The Edge of Seventeen The Edge of Seventeen (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.19 — 67 ratings — published 2016
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3) Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 138,542 ratings — published 2025
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Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4) Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
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avg rating 3.93 — 120,329 ratings — published 2025
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Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3) Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3)
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avg rating 4.18 — 162,283 ratings — published 2024
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Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2) Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2)
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avg rating 3.89 — 184,884 ratings — published 2024
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Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4) Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
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avg rating 4.35 — 435,898 ratings — published 2023
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Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
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avg rating 4.29 — 868,879 ratings — published 2023
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Love on the Brain Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 653,387 ratings — published 2022
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Credence Credence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 608,013 ratings — published 2020
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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 113 ratings — published 1999
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Midnight Valentine Midnight Valentine (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 19,101 ratings — published 2018
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The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,164 ratings — published 2019
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Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.54 — 147 ratings — published 2016
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Fear of Intimacy Fear of Intimacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.23 — 176 ratings — published 1999
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Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.35 — 510 ratings — published 2020
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Attachment Across the Lifecourse: A Brief Introduction Attachment Across the Lifecourse: A Brief Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 116 ratings — published 2011
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Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)) Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.34 — 302 ratings — published 2010
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Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 71 ratings — published 2007
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The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence The Other Side of Co-dependency The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence The Other Side of Co-dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.94 — 159 ratings — published 2008
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“AVPs are usually willing to show or tell others about their external or physical pain. In so doing, they avoid sharing the internal pain they feel. They can overdwell on their anatomical issues. This ambivalent thinking can be self-defeating. And AVPs fear finality. Some patients have not had a recommended surgery, due to the finality of having the problem fixed. The avoidant person’s gauging of their own body is flawed. Some avoidants are quick to seek treatment for their bodily concerns. The tensions they absorb have produced some very real problems. On the other hand, some avoidant persons tend to “ignore” these concerns until a significant health event occurs. As a group, they do need rest, less stressful environments, and dietary consistency, but they are not good at these following these restrictions.”
Dr. Sandra Smith-Hanen, Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder

“Perfectionism has its own set of judgment issues. The AVP may see the partner as less than perfect and can exclude them on such a basis. These erroneous judgments, at best, impede their social relationships and, at worst, leave them alone. The way in which they reflect on their lives and the lives of others is so often done from one perspective—theirs.”
Dr. Sandra Smith-Hanen, Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder

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