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Bowlby’s Take on “Mamma Mia”

Author’s note: In response to the email I sent out to our mailing list announcing our new Bowlby Less Traveled bog, I received the following return email from Jeremy Holmes: Dear Frederick—good news: the more I look at your website the better it seems;  bad news:  as a blog-duffer, I am taking you up on your […]

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Council on Foundations Annual Meeting Summary

Author’s note: I wrote this summary for our board following the Council on Foundation’s Annual Conference up in Denver (April 25 – 27, 2010). Truth be known, the session on Social Media (talked about below) encouraged us to start this very blog. I thought it might be a good idea to include this summary as a […]

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If The Mac OS Is to Systems Theory as Windows Is to Reductionism, Then Bowlby Used a Mac

In my post of June 22, 2010 entitled Farmer Freud and Farmer Bowlby—Ploughing the Same Field? I ended with this quote by Bowlby (from vol. I, page xxvii): “From a new viewpoint a familiar landscape can sometimes look very different.” The familiar landscape Bowlby is referring to here is none other than Freud’s psychodynamic theory […]

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Losing Insecure Attachment With Jillian (Part 1)

It’s official: for the 2010 summer TV season, Jillian Michaels—personal trainer extraordinaire—has left The Biggest Loser ranch to go out and about making house calls in a spin-off show Losing It With Jillian. I have watched the first few episodes and I’m hooked, but not for the reason you might think. Sure, there’s great “personal […]

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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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