Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood. Huffpost Science (01/26/2016) by Carolyn Gregoire The above article by Carolyn Gregoire—Senior Health & Science Writer at the Huffington Post—caught my eye. Gregoire’s article profiles the work of Canadian physician Gabor Maté. According to Gregoire, Maté, writing in his 2010 book entitled In the Realm of Hungry […]
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February 3, 2016
Quick Look: “Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood”
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January 26, 2016
Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—I Must Have Been Dreaming
For the last several posts I’ve been pulling bullet points from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. I thought my last post Nuts & Bolts would be my final installment. But an astute reader asked me why I did not pull a bullet point centered on […]
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August 18, 2015
Executive Function—Don’t Take It Personally
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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July 28, 2015
“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Review (part III)
Welcome back from my interlude late last week. This is part III 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 III—The Self-Medication Hypothesis and Attachment Theory: Pathways for Understanding and […]
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REPRINT: “Human Road Kill” by Amy Linn of Searchlight NM
As I was reading the Sunday Albuquerque Journal (01.21.18), I spotted an article by Amy Linn that caught my eye. The main title is: “Human Road Kill.” The subtitle reads: “Suffering early trauma, many N.M. kids face devastating consequences.” Turns out that Ms. Linn writes for Searchlight New Mexico, a group whose tagline is: “Bringing […]
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