About, Around, and Against the Work of John Bowlby
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I recently downsized to a one bedroom condo. It has taken several months, however, when I now unlock and walk through my front door, I feel a sense of safety, security, and comfort. I attribute these feelings to such things as getting to know my way around the condo complex, meeting other people who live [ ]
Hello and welcome back to part four and the final installment in this series looking at the two volume set by Iain McGilchrist entitled The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. Before we get started I d like to mention another organic principle, property, or motivation found within organic [ ]
Welcome back to Part 3. I d like to give you a brief thumbnail sketch of organic systems theory as told by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. I m pulling this information from Bertalanffy s 1968 book entitled General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. I will also pull from work by John Bowlby. As I have mentioned several times before, [ ]
At the end of the last episode I mentioned René Descartes, a French philosopher and scientist who worked during the early to mid-1600s. You may know Descartes by his now famous pronouncement Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am). Looking at Descartes using the lens of McGilchrist s book The Matter of Things I could [ ]
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I just returned from a three-month long funeral procession. OK, not an actual procession like those that wind through the streets of New Orleans led by a jazz band. This procession was the one described by Iain McGilchrist s book The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World. McGilchrist is [ ]
I hope everyone had a great holiday season! Before we get started allow me to add to Allan Schore s model as I described it in Part I. Earlier I talked about how disruptions in the transfer and translation of information between right and left brains can cause psychological problems. As Allan points out, the right [ ]
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If you have spent time reading my posts over the years then you know that I often rail against the decline of public intellectualism here in the U.S. During my rants I often point to the 2001 book by Richard Posner entitled Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. Not long ago a geology colleague of [ ]