America at 250: Safe Haven, Secure Base, and the Attachment We Owe Each Other | The Flourishing Journal The Flourishing Journal★Est. 1776 · Celebrating 250 Place & Belonging The Psychology of What America Means to Us On the 250th anniversary, place attachment theory offers a way to see two kinds of Americans clearly, and the debt one owes the other. VC Victor Counted, Ph.D. THE FLOURISHING JOURNAL Two hundred and fifty years is long enough for a nation to become invisible to the people who live inside it. We stop seeing the walls because we have never known a world without them. We stop appreciating the place because we have…