Severe Attachment Anxiety: Compulsive Checking as Maladaptive Affect Regulation (V) / [H10]
Abstract
Compulsive checking can be read as a desperate attempt to ward off psychic annihilation, through the experience of intolerable inner insecurity in the absence of an attachment figure.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Anxiety
Depression
Psychometrics
Treatment
Cognitive Processes
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 8 January 2026
- Language
- EN