Table of Contents Three Roads to the Same Door Compulsion or Connection? Where We Are Defining Artificial Intimacy and Attachment Hacking The “Partner” Who Never Takes a Day Off The Differential Question Attachment Paralysis and Relational Atrophy More For Clinicians The Strongest Case Against Takeaways/TL;DR References Three Roads to the Same Door Over the last […]
Introduction: Finding my Frame With each passing year, it seems the world is digging a bigger hole for itself. Whether it’s politics, war, technological disruption, hypercapitalism, climate change, or one of so many other global ills, anyone who’s paying attention has an endless list of things to lament. Yet the sun rises. We wake up, […]
In the fetid wake of Donald Trump’s election two years ago, I found myself awash in unwelcome questions: How could someone so obviously unfit for office be elected President of the United States? Why had so many of my fellow voters failed to recoil at the blatant petulance and dishonesty that saturated his political persona? […]
Reading J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy officially puts me on the bandwagon of liberal Americans who are trying to figure out what the hell is going on in our country. And while I don’t think it’s fair for a confounded public to turn to a single figure to explain the motives of rural Trumpites, historical circumstances seem to […]