Neurosis
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Michael Schreiner | April 5, 2018
Understanding People Who Refuse To Ask For Help
Business As Usual We all know those people who are clearly in need of help yet obstinately refuse...
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Michael Schreiner | March 30, 2018
Understanding People With Constant Relationship Conflict
Periods of Peace and Calm Are the Exception We all know people whose lives and relationships are defined...
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Michael Schreiner | March 2, 2018
Emotional Detachment and Suppressing Powerful Emotions
A Chosen Strategy for Psychic Relief When we write about emotional detachment as a syndrome it’s essential to...
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Michael Schreiner | February 12, 2018
Emotional Detachment and Ambivalence
Fear of Obligation Ambivalence is the experience of having simultaneous conflicting thoughts and feelings. In the case of...
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Michael Schreiner | January 9, 2018
Helping Someone With Emotional Detachment Confront The Void
Nothing Wrong With the Emotional Apparatus Most people struggling with emotional detachment don’t seek out help on their...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2017
Understanding The Stages Of Change
While motivational interviewing was originally conceived as a way to treat drug and alcohol addiction its applications are...
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Michael Schreiner | November 3, 2017
Emotional Detachment And Anxiety
In emotional detachment there’s nothing wrong with the emotional apparatus per se. People with emotional detachment are capable...
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Michael Schreiner | October 20, 2017
Managing Death Anxiety
There’s nothing particularly neurotic about death anxiety and in fact we might make the opposite case: Excluding the...
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Michael Schreiner | October 4, 2017
Repetition Compulsion
To understand the psychological mechanism of repetition compulsion we must first understand the elevated place of the primary...
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Michael Schreiner | July 12, 2017
Emotional Detachment And The Love Language Of Service
What we find time and time again with people who are emotionally detached and in a romantic relationship...