Q – An article I read recently made a distinction between “bonding” and “attachment.” Are they the same or different?
Read MoreQ – An article I read recently made a distinction between “bonding” and “attachment.” Are they the same or different?
Read MoreA colleague just sent over materials that contain the following quote by Nancy Davis: In the popular press and in many programs, “resilience” is frequently used as if it were a character trait, as in “John is very resilient.” However, using the term this way has had an unintended but serious negative consequence in that […]
Read MoreIn my BLT (Bowlby Less Traveled) post of June 29th, 2010, I mentioned the following quote by Bowlby from page 41 of vol. I of his trilogy on attachment: At one time to attribute purposiveness to animals or to build a psychology of human behavior on the concept of purposefulness was to declare oneself a […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreAs most of you know, John Bowlby, arguably the father of attachment theory, wrote three volumes on the subject (often referred to collectively as Bowlby’s trilogy). The main title for each volume was Attachment and Loss. The subtitle for each volume was different and set the tone for what was to come: vol. I – […]
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