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Feedback to Origins Reaction

In this post I’d like to provide some of the feedback I received concerning my three-part reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. Jeremy Holmes—author of the 2009 book Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy—emailed to let me know that John Bowlby was first influenced […]

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Reaction to “Origins of Attachment” (part II)

Welcome to part II of my reaction to the 2014 book Origins of Attachment co-written by Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann. OK, allow me to get one of my pet peeves out of the way at the onset (as promised in part I). And this is not a reaction just to the Origins book (for […]

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Let’s Talk About “Changing Systems” Systematically (part II of II)

As promised at the end of part I, we’ll begin part II by asking, “What good are systems levels, especially organic systems levels?” Well, lets take an example from philanthropy. Consider this oft cited example (which apparently comes from Lao Tzu—thank you Robert Hall): Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day […]

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