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About, Around, and Against the Work of John Bowlby

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 23, 2010 

If All You Have Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

As many of you know, I’m not a big fan of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Sure, it has it’s place but that place has gotten rather large of late. Because of  pressure coming mainly from insurance companies, it often seems as if all mental health therapists have in their modality toolboxes is cognitive-behavioral therapy.

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 22, 2010 

Farmer Freud and Farmer Bowlby—Ploughing the Same Field?

As most of you know, John Bowlby, arguably the father of attachment theory, wrote three volumes on the subject (often referred to collectively as Bowlby’s trilogy). The main title for each volume was Attachment and Loss. The subtitle for each volume was different and set the tone for what was to come: vol. I – […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 21, 2010 

Amy G Dala—Rapper or Brain Center?

If you picked “rapper” you’re probably wrong. Amygdala is actually the name for a brain center, but Amy G Dala would be a great name for a rapper. Amy G—the brain center— “is the primary neural structure controlling fearful arousal,” so says Karlen Lyons-Ruth, an attachment researcher working at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 17, 2010 

Oxytocin—The Road to Love and War?

If you read Natalie Angier’s 1999 book Woman—An Intimate Geography, you’ll (hopefully) learn a lot about the hormone oxytocin. The media has given oxytocin such popular names as “the bonding hormone,” or “the love hormone,” or even “the let-down hormone.” Along with other peptides, such as prolactin, oxytocin triggers a rather amazing dance in women who […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 16, 2010 

Are You Open or Closed to Intimacy? Hopefully Both

I had the good fortune to attend a workshop recently entitled “Sexuality, Intimacy and Aging.” I did so mainly as a way of collecting CEUs (continuing education units) for my upcoming counseling license renewal process. (Licensed counselors in the state of New Mexico are required to acquire 40 CEUs during each two-year renewal period.) Even […]

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