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Archive for John Bowlby – Page 17

Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 3, 2012 

Repent for the Cosmic Castration Is Upon Us (part II)

The other morning I was enjoying a hot shower. I had my Waterpik shower head on pulsate. I was daydreaming about possible plans for my retirement (roam the countryside in an RV perhaps), which may never materialize given current economic conditions. All was well until I jumped back in response to the water going momentarily cold […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 February 9, 2012 

UPDATE: The Tao of Brain Plasticity

There’s not a month that goes by that I do not receive a brochure on yet another workshop on how all manner of mental health therapy has the potential to change the brain, “rewire brain circuitry” is the metaphor most often used. These brochures conjure up images of psychotherapists wearing tool belts and sporting butt […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 January 31, 2012 

Notes on Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows”

As I read through Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, I took a few notes centered on where the information Carr presents dovetails with the information John Bowlby presents in his trilogy on attachment theory. Here are my notes. The page numbers refer to pages in The Shallows.

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 January 25, 2012 

Summarizing Neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg’s Book Entitled “The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World” (Part III)

When I was a boy back in the 1960s I enjoyed watching country singer Mel Tillis on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (How a young boy was able to stay up past his bedtime to watch late night TV without his parents knowing is a story for another day.) I remember feeling bad for […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 December 21, 2011 

“Take That Thumb Out of Your Mouth and Respond to That White Mouse—Now Kid”

I’d like to take a short break from writing my multi-part summary of neurologist Elkhonon Goldberg’s book entitled The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World. This will be my last post of the year, so I’ll restart my New Executive Brain summary early next year. Even though the Foundation is in the […]

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