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Abrasive Personality Disorder
Abrasive personality disorder: a disorder to classify the difficult, overbearing, and nasty people.
Love is a Verb
Love is a verb, expressed by how we treat those that we love. Love is…
Love Hate Relationships
Love and hate relationships start with a bang but often fizzle into distrust, constantly bouncing…
Moral Reconation Therapy
Moral reconation therapy was designed to assist in developing moral reasoning among incarcerated populations.
Engulfment In Relationships
Partners will inevitably face a mismatch in attachment styles. Fear of engulfment in relationships is…
Name Calling
Any two people will encounter disagreements. Nasty name calling used in these disagreements destroys closeness…
Paranoid Ideation
Identifying, understanding, and treating paranoid ideation. Paranoid ideation is a symptom of several mental disorders.
Toxic Home Environments
When we have a toxic home environments, they constantly provoke stress, poisoning our souls and…
Riddled with Guilt
When we are riddled with guilt, we freeze and fail to progress.
Axis II Disorders
Early versions of DSM placed personality disorders on a separate AXIS (AXIS-II Disorders).
Quantum Psychology
Quantum psychology is a pseudo-theory derived from quantum mechanics and quantum ontology.
Open Communication
Burying thoughts and feelings, afraid openness will spark a fight, signals that something is amiss….
Selective Information Processing
We unconsciously engage in selective information processing to effectively act in a dynamic and complex…
James Lange Theory of Emotion
We run from the bear, notice we are running then we feel fear.
Sublimation: A Defense Mechanism
We must deal with the pain in one way or another. We all need effective…
Leaving A Narcissist
The characteristics common to narcissism typically are disastrous for relationships. Often leaving a narcissist is…
Strange Situation
Mary Ainsworth’s strange situation experiments had a profound impact on attachment theory, and continues to…
Anxious Lovers
Anxious lovers have high attachment anxiety that is self-perpetuating, repeatedly spoiling relationships and increasing their…
Frustration Tolerance
Frustration tolerance refers to our ability to tolerate frustrations. Low frustration tolerance is associated with…
Wellness Basics
We want to be healthy. We achieve wellness by focusing on the basics.
Emotional Safety
We explore and grow when we are not emotionally threatened. Safety and security are necessary…
Psychology of Wellness
Wellness is more than doing the right things. Complete wellness encompasses all dimensions in our…
Human Flourishing
We can do more than survive. A little food, water and protection from the harsh…
Emotional Outbursts
Emotions swirl as we crash into others and experience. The collision creates an emotional storm,…
Developmental Tasks
Each stage of developments has specific developmental tasks that should be completed during that specific…
Relationship Security, Love, and Intimacy
Love songs, poems and stories glamorize instant connection—soul mates. “Happily, ever after” is a mainstay…
Emotional Patterns
Recognizing emotional patterns provides an opportunity to intervene extinguishing the unproductive with purposeful action.
Object Relations Theory
Object relations theory is based on psychodynamic theory, however, object relation theory de-emphasizes…
Bowen Family Systems Theory
Bowen family system theory examines family dynamics through modern systems thinking, focusing on emotional systems…
Stoically Aloof
The author reflects on how societal attitudes towards ‘stoic aloofness’ have shifted towards viewing such…