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Archive for Attachment In the Media – Page 18

Losing Insecure Attachment With Jillian (Part 2)

At the end of part one, I talked about how we tend to build walls around the type of loss that goes beyond the human pale, like the death of a one-month-old infant. We do so in an attempt to not go through an experience of all-consuming loss—a loss that would feel as if we […]

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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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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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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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