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About, Around, and Against the Work of John Bowlby

Archive for empathy – Page 3

Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 March 30, 2011 

Mama … How Do You Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives? (part 1)

Hopefully it will come as no surprise that I tend to lean left of center. In all likelihood I use George Lakoff‘s Nurturant Parent Cultural Cognitive Model (“Nurturant model” for short) to guide me through life. As Lakoff points out in his work (see his book Moral Politics for an example) empathy is part and parcel […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 July 6, 2010 

Losing Insecure Attachment With Jillian (Part 2)

At the end of part one, I talked about how we tend to build walls around the type of loss that goes beyond the human pale, like the death of a one-month-old infant. We do so in an attempt to not go through an experience of all-consuming loss—a loss that would feel as if we […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 22, 2010 

Farmer Freud and Farmer Bowlby—Ploughing the Same Field?

As 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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