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Without exception, sadomasochistic subjects (n =48), unlike controls (n =35), are found to have developed insecure internal models of personal attachment, as a result of childhoods which were all problematic in one way or another. Their capacity for metacognition and their coherence of mind are found to be, on average, less than that of controls.
Many of the most intense emotions arise during the formation, the maintenance, the disruption, and the renewal of attachment relationships.(Bowlby, 1987)
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Rathbone, J. (2001). The Adult Attachment Interview. In: Anatomy of Masochism. The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1347-6_5
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