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COMMENT: Death to Death and All That Loss

For Christmas, a good friend of mine bought me a book that I just finished reading. I found it wildly informative and insightful. The book is Sapiens—A Brief History of Humankind by world history professor Yuval Noah Harari. For me, Harari’s book was like Paul Harvey on steroids. Harvey was a radio personality and social […]

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Homosexuality Sheds Light On Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (GBAE)

I just read an interesting article that puts forth the following argument: “[T]here’s a continuum between affection and sexuality.” I happen to agree with this argument because I believe that the various behavioral systems—attachment, caregiving(receiving), and sex—interact in a dynamic way forming what I call a Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment or GBAE. I have talked […]

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COMMENT: You Can “Tune A Fish” But You Can’t “Tweet A Dog”

Before I start, a quick note. I did write part II of my blog series Sociable Robots: 3D Pornography? Unfortunately, I’m not going to post it. Why? Well, it’s good, maybe too good, meaning, too truthful. Simply, some truths are not appropriate for a blog format. So, if you’d like a copy of part II, […]

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John Bowlby and the Fall (and, Hopefully, Rise) of a Conceptual Revolution

As a graduate student studying counseling psychology I was provided with information on such individuals as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Carl Rogers, Jean Piaget, and John Bowlby. What I wasn’t provided with was information on how these individuals were part and parcel of specific conceptual revolutions. Sigmund Freud was caught up within the hydraulic conceptual […]

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