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REVIEW: Robert Sapolsky’s “Behave” Suffers From “Flotationism”

I thoroughly enjoyed neurologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky’s 2017 book entitled Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. I’m not new to Sapolsky’s work. A number of years ago (when VHS tapes ruled the world) I watched a class of his through Great Courses entitled Biology and Human Behavior. To say that […]

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QUICK LOOK: Harari on the History of Attachment

Lately I’ve been blogging about the work of world history professor Yuval Harari, specifically his two books Sapiens and Homo Deus. I found Sapiens by browsing at a local bookstore just up the road. As I flipped through the pages of Sapiens, my eye caught a glimpse of a picture from one of Harry Harlow’s […]

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A Question of Attachment now available!

The Foundation’s president has successfully navigated the challenging waters of Kindle Direct Publishing. His new book A Question of Attachment—Toward A Lossless Society is now available exclusively at Amazon. It is available in eBook and paperback formats. To read a preview and for ordering information, click on this link. Here’s the Amazon web site description: […]

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“A Question of Attachment” Is In Final Draft

Just a quick update to let you know that A Question of Attachment is in final draft. A few brave souls are giving the final draft a once over looking for obvious mistakes and guffaws. Here’s a listing of the chapters and subheadings: Introduction—“To Thine Own Self Be Tickled”……………….. 5 Chapter Summaries…………………………………………………….. 8 More on […]

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Quick Look—“Encounters with John Bowlby”

In my last post I mentioned the 2017 book by Arturo Ezquerro entitled Encounters with John Bowlby—Tales of Attachment. Bowlby was Ezquerro’s supervisor for the last seven years of Bowlby’s life. Bowlby died in September, 1990, at the age of 83. I thought I’d offer up a few impressions of my read. I mean this […]

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