By now you’ve probably read the following disturbing headline: Young Risk-Takers Drawn to Dangerous ‘Choking Game’ Kathleen Doheny wrote this article for HealthDay, an article that profiles research conducted by Robert Nystrom, adolescent health manager at the Oregon Public Health Division in Portland. The article hit the web on April 16th, 2012. Here’s Doheny’s tagline: Study […]
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Archive for Antonio Damasio – Page 5
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April 18, 2012
Repent for the Cosmic Castration Is Upon Us (part I)
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February 9, 2012
UPDATE: The Tao of Brain Plasticity
There’s not a month that goes by that I do not receive a brochure on yet another workshop on how all manner of mental health therapy has the potential to change the brain, “rewire brain circuitry” is the metaphor most often used. These brochures conjure up images of psychotherapists wearing tool belts and sporting butt […]
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October 21, 2011
Does Chronic Internet Use Mimic Insecure Attachment? Bowlby’s Theory Gives Us a Possible Answer (Part II)
Way back in my August 25th, 2011, post, I wrote the following: How do we make sense of the following trends: autistic, “nerd,” “database” or mechanical worldviews are on the rise, while at the same time holistic, systems-oriented or biological worldviews are on the decline we’re increasingly moving away from knowledge and wisdom, and toward […]
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April 7, 2011
UPDATE: Is Stevens’s Archetypal System of Sexuality a Form of GBAE?
In earlier posts (see posts from December 21st, 2010, and January 4th, 6th, 12th, and 20th, 2011), I have talked about what I call the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (or GBAE for short). In my earlier posts I have argued that the GBAE holds the behavioral systems of caregiving, attachment, and sex. Bowlby’s ethological studies (e.g., […]
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COMMENT: You Can “Tune A Fish” But You Can’t “Tweet A Dog”
Before I start, a quick note. I did write part II of my blog series Sociable Robots: 3D Pornography? Unfortunately, I’m not going to post it. Why? Well, it’s good, maybe too good, meaning, too truthful. Simply, some truths are not appropriate for a blog format. So, if you’d like a copy of part II, […]
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