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Archive for Discussions on Child Development

Dr. Ippen-Ghosh on Attachment, Culture, and Trauma (Part II)

In part I (which was posted on November 3rd, 2010), I set the stage by briefly describing and providing examples for the following continuum: worldview <==> ideology <==> methodology <==> intervention I like to keep this continuum in mind because it challenges me to consider such things as worldviews, ideologies, and methodologies when hearing about […]

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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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