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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | April 7, 2015Automatic Negative Thinking And Depression
Arguing about the cause of depression is a little bit like arguing about what came first between the...
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Self-Actualization
Michael Schreiner | April 7, 2015Watering Plants And Self-Actualization
The leaves on the plant are all that are visible to you. If you weren’t familiar with how...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | April 6, 2015Neurosis And Death Anxiety
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being.” – Paul Tillich Anxiety is central to the...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | April 6, 2015Rationalization
A rationalization is a psychological strategy that allows for continued thoughts and behaviors that are known at some...
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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | April 3, 2015Putting People On A Pedestal
When we put people on a pedestal we expect the impossible from them, we expect them to be...
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Addictions
Michael Schreiner | April 3, 2015‘This Is The Last Time’ And Motivational Interviewing
When addicts resolve to quit their drug of choice they will often say to themselves “This is the...
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Mindfulness
Michael Schreiner | April 2, 2015Come Back To Your Breathing Throughout The Day
We live in a fast paced, stressful world. We’re exposed to a constant barrage of inputs that would...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | April 2, 2015At War With Yourself
“You’ve suffered enough, and warred with yourself, it’s time that you won.” – Glen Hansard When you’re suffering...
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Abuse
Michael Schreiner | April 1, 2015Abuse And Positive Reinforcements
We have written about how positive reinforcements are not necessarily good for you and negative reinforcements are necessarily...
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Individual Counseling
Michael Schreiner | April 1, 2015Helping Clients Change With Motivational Interviewing
When trying to help clients change maladaptive, entrenched patterns of behavior counselors might be using intelligible words but...