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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Top Down or Bottom Up?

I trust everyone had a great holiday season. Here’s hoping everyone has a prosperous and joyous 2016! One of my guilty pleasures is watching the reality program Alaskan Bush People on the Discovery Channel. On last night’s episode, the Brown clan of nine had to move a felled tree. They used a block and tackle […]

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“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Review (part I)

Each year starting in 1993 The Bowlby Centre in London has put on The John Bowlby Memorial Conference. For the twentieth anniversary in 2013, the theme of the conference was addiction looked at from an attachment perspective. In 2014 the proceedings of the 2013 conference were published under the title Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do […]

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Reaction to “Origins of Attachment” (part III)

Welcome to part III of my reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. This will be the final part in this series. It’s a bit long but I wanted to wrap things up. Let me ask you this question: Why is it that you cannot tickle yourself? […]

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Reactions to “Origins of Attachment” (part I)

A colleague of mine recently drew my attention to a book that I had not heard about before: The Origins of Attachment—Infant Research and Adult Treatment. This book was co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann and was released in 2014. I thought to myself, “Oh boy, a recent book on attachment, how fun.” I […]

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Insecure Attachment & Obesity, Pre-K & Entitlement, and Classrooms & Digital Tech—Imprisoning Minds In the Object World (part I)

Psychology undergraduate students just starting out often hear about neuroscientist Paul MacLean’s model known as the triune brain. Using evolution as a backdrop, MacLean’s model attempts to explain how the human brain developed. Although MacLean started sketching out his model in the 1960s, he worked in ernest to popularize his model with the 1990 release […]

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