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“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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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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Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 12)

To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 11 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Central question: are humans speciating into “naties”—people who have grown up mostly in natural environments—and “virties”—people who have grown up mostly in virtual, screen-delivered environments? Central question: are digital natives (people who are thirty or younger) essentially forming […]

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