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Archive for psychodynamics

“The Invention of Science”—What I Learned

Author’s note: I am simulposting this post both at LinkedIn Pulse and at Bowlby Less Traveled. I recently finished reading history professor David Wootton’s 2015 book entitled The Invention of Science—A New History of the Scientific Revolution. In my first career I was a petroleum geologist, so I have a soft spot for the so-called […]

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“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Review (part I)

Each year starting in 1993 The Bowlby Centre in London has put on The John Bowlby Memorial Conference. For the twentieth anniversary in 2013, the theme of the conference was addiction looked at from an attachment perspective. In 2014 the proceedings of the 2013 conference were published under the title Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do […]

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Reaction to “Origins of Attachment” (part III)

Welcome to part III of my reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. This will be the final part in this series. It’s a bit long but I wanted to wrap things up. Let me ask you this question: Why is it that you cannot tickle yourself? […]

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Reactions to “Origins of Attachment” (part I)

A colleague of mine recently drew my attention to a book that I had not heard about before: The Origins of Attachment—Infant Research and Adult Treatment. This book was co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann and was released in 2014. I thought to myself, “Oh boy, a recent book on attachment, how fun.” I […]

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Affectional Bonds—Bowlby: Found in Translation

This is part V of my multi-part review of John Bowlby’s 1979 book The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. This will be the last installment in this series. Here’s a brief recap of the central topics covered thus far: Sir Richard Bowlby’s introduction, which was added in 2005 Feminist criticism of attachment theory and […]

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