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The Politics Of Loneliness

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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How to Keep Your Caregiver Around

You should still get into it. Our audience hasn't necessarily been on this journey along with me. So./nOkay, let me get into this. Cause this is really cool. So there was a British psychoanalyst, John Bolby, who noticed that in fact, you know, ducklings imprint on their mothers and they follow them. And baby animals need to hang on to that caregiver for survival. And then he said, wait, the human animal is dependent on a caregiver for years, for decades, for survival. So how do we do that? How do we as babies imprint on our caregivers? And what he noticed is there are particular patterns of making sure you can keep your caregiver around because your survival depends on it.

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