I think most of us can bring to memory images of ancient statues missing limbs and facial features such as noses. For me it’s the statue Venus de Milo, thought to be “Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus” (quoting Wikipedia). Certainly limbs and even facial features were lost as the result […]

As promised, I would like to introduce you to the work of systems thinker and theorist Donella Meadows. Meadows wrote the book Thinking in Systems: A Primer, which was posthumously released in 2008 (edited by Diana Wright). As a result of the widespread popularity of Meadow’s book, the title was changed to Thinking in Systems: International […]

Welcome back. In my last post I talked about how an analysis of linguistic behavior could reveal structural brain deficiencies (e.g., the Goldberg example) as well as functional brain deficiencies (e.g., the Adult Attachment Interview example). In the Goldberg example, as well as in the insecure attachment example, the interviewee was not able to maintain […]

This may well be the most insightful and, dare I say, creative post I have written in the 14+ year, 350+ post history of the Bowlby Less Traveled blog. Before I explain why, a bit of housekeeping. In my last post I said that I would introduce you to the work of systems thinker Donella […]

If U.S. culture were a moonshot, right about now we might hear the following message come over the control room PA speaker: “Ahhh, Houston, we have a dilemma.” The other day I read an article over at CNN Online by Laura Paddison entitled Heat waves are getting longer and more brutal. Here’s why your AC can’t […]