Neurosis
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Self-Sacrifice and Resentment
The masochist considers self-sacrifice to be one of the highest virtues. Those with masochistic traits constantly put the...
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Running From Responsibility
At the superficial level the reason people shirk responsibility is that responsibility implies hard work and implies the...
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Narrative Therapy For Emotional Detachment
While emotional detachment is a defense mechanism taken to reduce feelings of helplessness in a hostile world, partners...
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Emotional Detachment and Not Caring
The commonly held belief is that those with emotional detachment don’t care about much of anything, that they...
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Common Rationalizations of Emotional Detachment
When we understand that longstanding patterns of maladaptive behavior usually serve vital psychological and emotional functions despite their...
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Emotional Detachment and Approaching Conflict in Relationships
Since emotional detachment as a life solution is about withdrawing from people and the world in order to...
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Understanding the Masochistic Life Solution
Repeated Exposure to Trauma Repeated exposure to abuse, abandonment, or other trauma produces seemingly unbearable amounts of anxiety....
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Criticism And The Idealized Image
Criticism Hurts But We Decide How Much Unless we’re masochists who have come to derive pleasure from being...
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Responding To Criticism
Is the Criticism Just or Unjust? The psychological trick in responding to criticism is in figuring out whether...
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Grudges
A Grudge Is Proof You Still Care In the psychological sense holding a grudge means you continue to...
