Real Stories of Attachment from This American Life

I was listening to a podcast of This American Life called Unconditional Love this weekend and thought these stories might be of interest to those of you who are interested in attachment theory. The prologue of the episode talks about the history of attachment theory. Act one, Love is a Battlefield, tells the story of a couple and the son they adopted from a Romanian orphanage.  Act two, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, is about a family with an autistic child.  Both stories are very compelling.

The Neuroanatomical Transformation of the Teenage Brain: Jill Bolte Taylor

I love checking out other people's brain talks.  Jill Bolte Taylor, author of My Stroke of Insight, gave this talk on the development of the adolescent brain as a TED talk.  I think it is the best brain talk I have heard to date.  It describes what is happening in the developing brain, why teenagers are the way they are and the hope for us all if they tend their brains well and if we don't kill them before they are 25.