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Saturday, December 7, 2013

This American Life: Until The Late 20th Century, Love Was Defined As Pathology

Alan: We easily forget that American psychological credos were profoundly pathological until the last 50 years. Long after my birth in 1947, breastfeeding was considered inferior to formula and mothers who were physically capable of breasting were told they were not. Read the transcript of this episode's prologue to glimpse the bizarre contempt in which love was held. One school of psychological orthodoxy cautioned that children would be spoiled if kissed more than once a year.

317: Unconditional Love

317: Unconditional Love

SEP 15, 2006
Can love be taught? A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them. And other stories about the hard and sometimes painful work of loving other people.
PROMO 

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Harry Harlow, from the Prologue.

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