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Michael Schreiner | November 30, 2015Paradox Of Strength And Weakness
Many people who decide to seek outside help for life problems are plagued by negative feelings about themselves...
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Michael Schreiner | November 27, 2015Unintentional Abandonment
We recently wrote about the toll of abandonment. The main takeaway is that people who were abandoned by...
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Michael Schreiner | November 26, 2015Thanksgiving Miracle
Many people are going to be stuffing their faces full of food tonight until they can’t eat one...
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Michael Schreiner | November 25, 2015The Toll Of Abandonment
We’ve written a lot about the severe psychological toll of abandonment. From our psychoanalytic point of view, the...
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Michael Schreiner | November 23, 2015Fundamental Rationalizations
We’ve written a great deal about the role rationalizations play in everyday life. Whether big or small they...
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Michael Schreiner | November 18, 2015Victimized By Scam Artists
We’re not talking here about the full on scam artists who manipulate the actions of their targets through...
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Michael Schreiner | November 13, 2015The Problem With Hope
Despair is as much a deterrent of focused activity as hope is a motivator of focused activity. The problem...
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Michael Schreiner | November 11, 2015Transfer Of Responsibility In Therapy
One of the principle dangers of starting up therapy is the psychological transfer of responsibility for life problems...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015Sadistic Teachers And Coaches
Some teachers and coaches claim that the only way to motivate certain students and players is through getting...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015Working Out Emotional Knots
In Gestalt psychology when people have had something bad happen to them and haven’t really worked through it,...
