Existential Psychology
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Michael Schreiner | November 3, 2016
Retirement, Productivity, And Meaning
What happens to a lot of people upon retirement is that they suddenly find themselves without a given...
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Michael Schreiner | October 28, 2016
Psychological Help For Shyness
It’s not easy being shy in a big anonymous social world. From the shy person’s perspective there’s an...
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Michael Schreiner | October 26, 2016
Isolate What Isn’t Serving You
You have to isolate what isn’t serving you before you can surrender it. But isolation is more difficult...
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Michael Schreiner | October 25, 2016
Paradox Of Change
“When I accept myself as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers Acceptance and change don’t...
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Michael Schreiner | October 21, 2016
Helping Others
A human irony is that many people become focused on helping others not because they feel like they’re...
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Michael Schreiner | October 18, 2016
Anxiety And Control
When people come to feel helpless in the face of life conditions they perceive as hostile the psychic...
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Michael Schreiner | October 12, 2016
Feeling Lazy
There are few assigned personality traits as reviled as laziness in our society. This probably has to do...
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Michael Schreiner | October 7, 2016
Peer Pressure And Low Self-Esteem
The lower the self-esteem the higher the susceptibility to peer pressure. This is because when self-esteem is low...
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Michael Schreiner | October 6, 2016
Cultural Watchdog
Anyone who thinks in terms of well-adjusted or maladjusted is an unwitting cultural watchdog, a sort of unofficial...
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Michael Schreiner | October 2, 2016
The Tyranny Of The Shoulds
Shoulds are the inflexible, authoritarian, joyless rules for thinking, feeling, and behaving that people subject themselves to at...