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Archive for John Bowlby – Page 22

Philanthropic Synergy Secures Grant Support for Domestic Violence Research

An abridged version of the following article appeared in the Fall 2010 Insights, a magazine published quarterly in support of the research efforts and activities taking place at the College of Human Ecology; Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York. The Foundation would like to thank Michele J. Barrett, Communications Manager for the College of Human Ecology, for […]

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UPDATE – Norbert Wiener Also Bridged Mechanical and Biological Worlds

In my August 10th, 2010, post, I wrote the following (with my addition in brackets): In this section of vol. I [of Bowlby’s trilogy on attachment theory at about page 41], Bowlby deftly moves back and forth between mechanical systems and mechanical forms of linking and integrating (often referred to as cybernetics) and biological forms of […]

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How Parents Can Get Infants to Sleep | Key to Infant Sleep | Sleeping Babies | LiveScience

How Parents Can Get Infants to Sleep | Key to Infant Sleep | Sleeping Babies | LiveScience. I just ran across this article over at LiveScience.com (which profiles the work of Douglas Teti, professor of human development and family studies at Penn State) and it struck me as being a bit odd in that déjà […]

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One Book On Attachment … Which Would It Be?

Q – If you could recommend one book on attachment, which one would it be? A – I’m asked this question all the time. If you had asked me, say, five years ago, I would have immediately answered, “Robert Karen’s 1998 book Becoming Attached—First Relationships And How They Shape Our Capacity to Love.” Karen’s book […]

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Freud Is to Hydraulics What Bowlby Is to Control Systems

In my post of July 16th, 2010, I talked about how John Bowlby used the purpose or goal of mechanical control systems to argue that there is also a purpose or a goal to biological control systems. Here’s the quote by Bowlby (from page 41 of vol. I of his trilogy on attachment) that I […]

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