Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends

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'A timely, unique guide to approaching friendship, often the profoundest source of connection in your life, with the love (and self-reflection) it deserves.' - Francesca Specter, author of Alonement A life-affirming handbook on how understanding the science of attachment can help you find friends and forge strong, lasting connections with others. When was the last time you put yourself out there to make a new friend For many of us, the answer is too long ago. Step forward psychologist and friendship expert Dr Marisa G. Franco, who explains how the undervaluing of friendship in our culture has led to an epidemic of isolation, and what we can do about it. Using the groundbreaking framework behind attachment theory, Platonic teaches us to identify and understand our individual styles - secure, anxious or avoidant - and why exploring how we behave in relationships is the key to unlocking what we're doing right (and what we could do better) in our friendships. This book is the ultimate guide to learning how we make and keep friends for life. 'Platonic is a fantastic guide not just for making and keeping friends - it's also a manifesto for how to more effectively invest in the stuff that really matters in life.' - Dr Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast

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Filled with studies, interviews, and real-life stories, Marisa Franco leads us back to what matters most: love in all its forms. If you want to feel genuinely connected, read this book -- Shasta Nelson, author of Friendships Dont Just Happen!
If you dont want to see the doctor, see your friends. The evidence on this is very clearhaving strong connections is the lowest-hanging fruit on the tree of a healthy life. Whats less straightforward is how you go about doing that, so see this doctor and shell help keep you away from the other ones. -- Billy Baker, author of We Need to Hang Out
Platonic is an intensive exploration about the healing nature and safe-haven to be found in friendships. Its a gentle, yet affirming, call-in for us to investigate how weve regarded the platonic relationships in our life and opportunities for deep fulfillment that we may be missing out on. -- Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Therapy for Black Girls
Franco offers suggestions for making connections, with step-by-step guidelines on how to be a better pal. * Essence Magazine *
Reminds us of the importance of platonic love in todays society - bucking the notion that romantic love trumps everything else in our lives. * The Wall Street Journal *
Francos book not only makes the case for developing friendship, but also shows us how to go about it: by reaching out, being vulnerable and authentic, offering affection and generosity, and managing conflicts wisely. While our attachment style can sometimes interfere with making friends, Franco gives practical guidance on how to manage psychological (and other) blocks to friendship, paving the way to deeper relationships. * University of California *
Provides a clear and actionable blueprint for forging strong, lasting connections with othersand for becoming our happiest, most fulfilled selves in the process. If you ever needed help nurturing new friendships, this is for you. * Next Big Idea Club *
There isnt enough conversation around some of the central relationships in our lives: friends! I closed this book determined to prioritize my friendships as one of the most important aspects of my life. -- Laura Tremaine, author of Share Your Stuff. Ill Go First
A fascinating meditation on how we develop and build meaningful relationships. An insightful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable read. Everyone needs this book -- Lauren Martin, author of The Book of Moods
Filled with evidence-based tips and stories you can't wait to share, Platonic is a fantastic guide not just for making and keeping friendsit's also a manifesto for how to more effectively invest in the stuff that really matters in life. -- Laurie Santos, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast
Franco collects and shares the most pertinent insights about the psychology of friendship... game-changing secrets. * MindBodyGreen *
Relationships take work. Weve always accepted that romantically but, curiously, rarely do we apply the same adage to friendship . . . This is a timely, unique guide to approaching friendship, often the profoundest source of connection in your life, with the love (and self-reflection) it deserves. -- Francesca Specter, author of Alonement

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An enlightening psychologist and international speaker, Dr Marisa G. Franco is known for digesting and communicating science in ways that resonate deeply enough with people to change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland, writes for Psychology Today, and has been a featured psychologist for major publications like The New York Times, The Telegraph and Vice. She speaks on mental health and belonging at corporations, government agencies, non-profits and universities.