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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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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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“Less Traveled” Blog on John Bowlby’s Work Opens (Part 3)

SOBN (Sphere O’Blog News) – We ended Part 2 with you telling us that you are planning to use the same blogging model that you saw depicted in the 2009 movie Julie & Julia. Please tell us more. Rick – In the movie Julie & Julia, the character Julie (fashioned after real world blogger Julie Powell) […]

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“Less Traveled” Blog on John Bowlby’s Work Opens (Part 2)

SOBN (Sphere O’Blog News) – We ended Part 1 of this interview with a promise from you to provide us examples—drawn from the world of John Bowlby’s work—of what you mean by attachment “bacon,” attachment “lettuce,” and attachment “tomato.” Rick – Yes. To find a recent “bacon” or “core” or “object” example, I’d recommend an […]

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“Less Traveled” Blog on John Bowlby’s Work Opens (Part 1)

The Frederick H. Leonhardt (FHL) Foundation has opened a new blog entitled “Bowlby Less Traveled” (BLT). According to the Foundation’s president, Rick Leonhardt, the BLT Blog will be about, around, and against the work of John Bowlby in the area of attachment theory. Rather than riding on well-traveled highways, the BLT Blog will wind through […]

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