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Archive for Grant News – Page 9

Domestic Violence and Attachment Theory

I’m currently writing an article with the support of the FHL Foundation which includes a section on mobilizing attachment processes in treating domestic violence. Here is a small draft sample:

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FHL Foundation Makes End-Of-The-Year Grants

The Foundation’s fiscal year ends on July 31st. On July 27th, 2010, the Foundation made it’s end-of-the-year grants. Here’s a summary of the end-of-the-year grants that were approved by the board:

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The California Homeless Youth Project (CHYP) Releases Report—Relationships Beget Relationships

I had the pleasure of hearing Nell Bernstein speak up in Santa Fe back in 2007 (or thereabout). If memory serves, Nell had just released her book entitled All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated. I remember asking Nell if she had spent any time looking at the attachment issues surrounding children of […]

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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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Amy G Dala—Rapper or Brain Center?

If you picked “rapper” you’re probably wrong. Amygdala is actually the name for a brain center, but Amy G Dala would be a great name for a rapper. Amy G—the brain center— “is the primary neural structure controlling fearful arousal,” so says Karlen Lyons-Ruth, an attachment researcher working at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

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