In this post I’d like to provide some of the feedback I received concerning my three-part reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. Jeremy Holmes—author of the 2009 book Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy—emailed to let me know that John Bowlby was first influenced […]
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June 16, 2015
Feedback to Origins Reaction
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December 8, 2014
The Rise and Fall of Procedural Man (and Woman)
Nicholas Carr’s recent book entitled The Glass Cage: Automation and Us contains an interesting sub theme: The current rise of automation may mark the fall of Procedural Man. OK, who’s Procedural Man? Most of us are able to ride a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is a form of learned procedure. Once we have learned a […]
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April 15, 2014
Continuums on a Continuum
In part I of my last blog series (which started on March 25th, 2014) I took an in depth look at Henry Giroux’s 2013 book entitled America’s Education Deficit and the War On Youth. I used cognitive scientist turned political commentator George Lakoff’s work in the area of cultural cognitive models (i.e., the liberal Nurturant […]
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October 16, 2013
Quick Look: Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield | UW Today
Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield | UW Today. by Doree Armstrong An interesting twist on Human – Machine attachments from the military arena. Here’s a quote from the article: It’s becoming more common to have robots sub in for humans to do dirty or sometimes dangerous work. But researchers are finding […]
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COMMENT: Boys and Men Stiffed (Again)
The title to this post is a reference to Susan Faludi’s 1999 book entitled Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. When it was released in 1999, Faludi’s book created a bit of a storm within liberal feminist communities. Stiffed seemed to paint the plight of men during the 1990s using sympathetic tones. Displaying any […]
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