Attachment & Food

This Training Video captures all the key learning points from our live training workshop with Linda Cundy on an attachment perspective to understanding our relationship with food.

From the start of life, feeding is a relational experience. The bond between caregiver and infant is brokered in the intimacy of feeding, and our attachment to food is an expression of the relationships we form with other people and ourselves. Our relationship with food expresses something of our attachment histories, secure or insecure: safety and security may be sought in eating or in refusal to eat.

This training video will help you to explore how our relationships with food are shaped in early life in the context of our first attachments, and how food mediates our relationships throughout life.

Throughout the video there will be opportunities for you to consider the place of food and eating in your own life and in the lives of your clients from an attachment perspective.

This Training Video also contains discussion summaries from the live workshop, and case studies which you can pause and reflect on.

The two videos you are recommended to watch are:

Food or Security

“Attachment Theory – Harlow’s Monkeys: Food or Security” which can be found on YouTube here https://youtu.be/-Qi7txH1KzY?feature=shared. Please be aware that some people may find this video distressing to watch as it contains audio-visual excerpts from a 1950s experiment where baby monkeys were separated from their mothers and subject to isolation and maternal deprivation.

Bringing Up Baby

“Bringing Up Baby” was a TV documentary series which has now been removed from YouTube by the copyright owners and unfortunately is no longer available to view. You can see the placemarker on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeE6SEu5P6djSxwh6Ax1SrectZ_HuN969

Comment added February 2025

This talk for Brighton Therapy Partnership was later expanded and developed into the book Attachment, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen (Routledge, 2021).

Special Offer

If you purchase this video, you can claim a 50% discount code for the recording of the key points from Linda Cundy’s new book on the same subject called Attachment, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen, which can be found HERE

Get both recordings for £56.50 down from £74!