The title to this post is a reference to Susan Faludi’s 1999 book entitled Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. When it was released in 1999, Faludi’s book created a bit of a storm within liberal feminist communities. Stiffed seemed to paint the plight of men during the 1990s using sympathetic tones. Displaying any […]
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September 22, 2015
COMMENT: Boys and Men Stiffed (Again)
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September 15, 2015
“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Cheat Sheet
I hope everyone had a great long weekend. A reader emailed me and asked if I could create a “cheat sheet” for my multi-part review of the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? That sounds like a good idea, and, as a result, […]
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June 30, 2015
Of Digital Billionaires and Analog Beggars—Entering the Age of Disruption
We are entering a new age of robber barons who wish to disrupt our old economic and social ways. Who are these new robber barons? Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame; Michael and Xochi Birch of Bebo fame (which was sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008); Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge […]
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June 16, 2015
Feedback to Origins Reaction
In this post I’d like to provide some of the feedback I received concerning my three-part reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. Jeremy Holmes—author of the 2009 book Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy—emailed to let me know that John Bowlby was first influenced […]
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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Externalizing Mind
Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at Levitin’s take on externalizing the mind. Levitin suggests that one effective way of organizing the mind is […]
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