In recent months I have read two books that take opposing views concerning the future of the Internet and its impact on empathy. The first is economist and educator Jeremy Rifkin’s 2014 book entitled The Zero Marginal Cost Society—The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism (which I blogged about in […]
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The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part I)
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July 23, 2015
“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—(an interlude)
Welcome back. As you know, I’m in the middle of a multi-part blog series wherein I’m reviewing the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? I’ve already posted parts I & II. I’ll post part III next week. In this very short post, I’d […]
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July 21, 2015
“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Review (part II)
Welcome back. This is part II of my multi-part blog series wherein I review the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? We’ll start off looking at Chapter Two—Addiction: Treatment and Its Context—by Jason Wright. Let’s dive in. Wright provides us with what he […]
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May 5, 2015
Comment: Bad News for the Securely Attached—Being Duped
I just read an interesting article by Andrew Giambrone over at The Atlantic entitled ‘People Skills’ Have a Dark Side — And We’re Just Now Understanding It. Giambrone talks about how common business wisdom holds that good employees should have high EI or emotional intelligence (a concept popularized by Daniel Goleman back in the mid-1990s). […]
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The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part II)
Welcome to part II of this two part blog series. In part I, I spent considerable time talking about what mental containers are and how they are used. In this post I’d like to take a look at how our mental container skills get set up in the first place. I’m assuming you have read […]
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