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Daniel Harold Casriel, M.D., born in New York City on March 1, 1924, was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer. He was a past president of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. He founded the Daytop treatment centers. Casriel died on June 7, 1983 at the age of 59 from a form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). After graduation from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine at age twenty-five, Casriel began his residency at the Kingsbridge Veterans' Administration Hospital. Less than a year into his residency, he was drafted and sent to Okinawa where he served as an Army psychiatrist. Beyond shaping the field of addictions treatment and psychotherapy, Casriel profoundly influenced the launch of relationship education. His intensive couples workshops for Lori Heyman Gordon's Family Relations Institute in Northern Virginia provided the framework for what emerged into the range of PAIRS' relationship education seminars and trainings that have touched millions of lives. Casriel popularized the theory that the "emotion of love" comes from the anticipation of pleasure. Based on Casriel's theory, "bonding," which he defined as "the unique combination of emotional openness and physical closeness with another human being," is central to sustaining healthy, intimate relationships. Casriel taught that symptoms of bonding deprivation include: "illness, fatigue, depression, rigidity, constriction, isolation, and the range of anti-social behaviors such as drug and alcohol abuse, gambling and sex addictions." Casriel considered bonding a biologically-based need similar to the need for food, water, air, and shelter, yet unique as the only biological need people cannot meet for themselves.
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Dan Casriel Video: Bonding and the Logic of Emotion

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You cannot promise everlasting love

Posted on 26 Aug 201722 Apr 2020 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “You cannot promise everlasting love”
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The need for bonding

The one survival need that requires trusting others

Posted on 25 Aug 201726 May 2019 by Daniel Casriel, MD4 comments on “The one survival need that requires trusting others”
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The need for bonding

The root cause of addiction and a path forward

Posted on 24 Aug 201720 Jul 2021 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “The root cause of addiction and a path forward”
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Beneath despair

Two reasons behind most suicides

Posted on 23 Aug 201730 Mar 2021 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “Two reasons behind most suicides”
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The need for bonding

Why many people feel empty after sex

Posted on 21 Aug 201720 Jul 2021 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “Why many people feel empty after sex”
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The need for bonding

The origin of nature’s roadmap

Posted on 21 Aug 201726 May 2019 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “The origin of nature’s roadmap”
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The need for bonding

Biological needs for human survival

Posted on 20 Aug 201726 May 2019 by Daniel Casriel, MD1 comment on “Biological needs for human survival”
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The need for bonding

The unhappiest culture ever to survive

Posted on 20 Aug 201726 May 2019 by Daniel Casriel, MD1 comment on “The unhappiest culture ever to survive”
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All about love

Wolves are more adaptable than people

Posted on 20 Aug 201720 Jul 2021 by Daniel Casriel, MD0 comments on “Wolves are more adaptable than people”
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