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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Why You Do the Things You Do

Tim Clinton · 2006
76/100
👍 Worth It

Clinton and Sibcy do something genuinely useful: they take peer-reviewed attachment theory — foundational, well-replicated science — and make it legible for people who have never taken a psychology course. The four attachment styles give readers an immediate self-diagnostic tool that actually explains adult relationship patterns, not just childhood ones. The Christian framing is substantial and consistent throughout, so secular readers should know going in that this is faith-integrated counseling, not incidentally Christian.

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safety90
substance78
craft74
originality70
accuracy80
hype65
age-fit85
human-eye76
Penny’s verdict76
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