Existential Psychology
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A Wound That Won’t Heal
We think of emotional wounds as different from physical wounds and that’s the problem. When our bodies are...
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Milestones
When you think about it milestones of all kinds are arbitrary, their import lies not in the factual...
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Existential Crisis Is A Good Thing
There’s no question that the feelings around existential crises are painful. Nobody enjoys feeling lost and anxious. The...
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Love And Vulnerability
“We are never so vulnerable as when we love.” – Sigmund Freud We usually don’t think of loving...
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Significance Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
We were walking around the store gathering up some ingredients to cook dinner when the thought flashed across...
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Existential Guilt
Understanding existential guilt requires the recognition that human beings are at once creaturely and godlike, biological organisms tied...
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Apologizing As A Power Struggle
When you have wronged someone it means that you have taken away their power. You have put your...
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Important Problems
The worst thing you can do is minimize the importance of your partner’s life problems. The objective fact...
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Boredom And Mortality
Most of us are scared of change, even more scared of death, and we yearn for some way...
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What Does It All Mean?
The question ‘What does it all mean?’ pops up when given sources of meaning no longer feel relevant....
