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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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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Externalizing Mind

Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at Levitin’s take on externalizing the mind. Levitin suggests that one effective way of organizing the mind is […]

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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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Comment: Bad News for the Securely Attached—Being Duped

I just read an interesting article by Andrew Giambrone over at The Atlantic entitled ‘People Skills’ Have a Dark Side — And We’re Just Now Understanding It. Giambrone talks about how common business wisdom holds that good employees should have high EI or emotional intelligence (a concept popularized by Daniel Goleman back in the mid-1990s). […]

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Affectional Bonds—Bowlby on Inner Working Models and Expectation Fields (continued)

This is part IV of my multi-part review of John Bowlby’s 1979 book The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. Here’s a brief recap of the central topics covered thus far: Sir Richard Bowlby’s introduction, which was added in 2005 Feminist criticism of attachment theory and Bowlby’s take on women entering the workforce Bowlby’s idea […]

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