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Bowlby Less Traveled (BLT)
About, Around, and Against the Work of John Bowlby
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 22, 2011 

The “Bowlby Less Traveled” Journey Comes to an End

On September 20th, 2011, the FHL Foundation held its annual meeting for the 2011–2012 fiscal year (which ends July 31st of each year). After careful deliberation and consideration, the board and staff decided to de-emphasize its focus on Bowlbian attachment theory as a theory of social change. The reasons for this decision are complex and […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 15, 2011 

Bowlby’s Connection to Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior

In my post of September 9th, 2011, I make the following claim: Theories (and theorists) are held by conceptual frameworks. By way of a review, here are some of the better-known Western conceptual frameworks over time (use the Contact Us link above to request the references I used to compile this list): Traditional-Sapient Revolution (circa […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 12, 2011 

UPDATE—Lyons-Ruth Study

We received the following email update from attachment researcher Karlen Lyons-Ruth. Karlen was kind enough to allow us to use her email update as a part of a blog post. Dear Rick and the FHL Foundation, We are very pleased to let you know of the recent publication of the results from our previous FHL […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 9, 2011 

John Bowlby and the Fall (and, Hopefully, Rise) of a Conceptual Revolution

As a graduate student studying counseling psychology I was provided with information on such individuals as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Carl Rogers, Jean Piaget, and John Bowlby. What I wasn’t provided with was information on how these individuals were part and parcel of specific conceptual revolutions. Sigmund Freud was caught up within the hydraulic conceptual […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 2, 2011 

Bowlby Phobia—UPDATE

In this post I’d like to briefly update my post of August 30th, 2011, entitled Bowlby Phobia. After completing my Bowlby Phobia post, I began rereading the various appendices at the end of volume II of Bowlby’s trilogy on attachment theory. In appendix I of volume II, Bowlby reviews “six main approaches to the problem […]

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