Yes, I know, you were expecting part VI of my multi-part review of the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? I’ve decided to pause my review of Addictions from an Attachment Perspective and talk about a favorite topic of mine Executive Function. Why? […]
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August 18, 2015
Executive Function—Don’t Take It Personally
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July 16, 2010
Homing In on Bowlby’s Middle Ground Between Reductionism and Vitalism
In my BLT (Bowlby Less Traveled) post of June 29th, 2010, I mentioned the following quote by Bowlby from page 41 of vol. I of his trilogy on attachment: At one time to attribute purposiveness to animals or to build a psychology of human behavior on the concept of purposefulness was to declare oneself a […]
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June 29, 2010
If The Mac OS Is to Systems Theory as Windows Is to Reductionism, Then Bowlby Used a Mac
In my post of June 22, 2010 entitled Farmer Freud and Farmer Bowlby—Ploughing the Same Field? I ended with this quote by Bowlby (from vol. I, page xxvii): “From a new viewpoint a familiar landscape can sometimes look very different.” The familiar landscape Bowlby is referring to here is none other than Freud’s psychodynamic theory […]
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