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A Question of Attachment: Book Chapter Ideas (part II)

In my last post I introduced a few book chapter ideas for my proposed book A Question of Attachment—Bowlby Less Traveled: The Book. In this post I’d like to introduce a few more chapter ideas. But first, I’d like to mention an interesting comment that came in concerning my last post. For review, here’s the […]

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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 7)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 6 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: There seems to be a backlash forming against digital busyness, a backlash that philanthropists could potentially support. Generally, one of the names this backlash goes by is the Slow Life Movement: slow food, slow parenting, slow travel, even […]

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Don’t Be Found Dumb Over Moral (Attachment) Dumbfounding (part I)

Welcome to part I of a three-part series on the topics of moral (attachment) dumbfounding and moral modules. Lets get started. I recently finished reading psychology professor Jonathan Haidt’s 2012 book entitled The Righteous Mind—Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. I appreciated Haidt’s observation that there are essentially six moral modules that […]

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Attachment and Resilience: The Politics of Nature or Nuture

A 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 […]

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