Neurosis
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Michael Schreiner | September 15, 2016
Vested Emotional Interest
You should be very skeptical of anyone trying to convince you of the objective veracity of a point...
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Michael Schreiner | July 5, 2016
Detached Personality And Ambivalence
Most people struggling with detached personality actually don’t feel like they’re struggling at all. They’re more or less...
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Michael Schreiner | June 29, 2016
The Blame Game
How much time do we waste over the course of our lives blaming ourselves for past events? We...
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Michael Schreiner | June 29, 2016
Detached Personality And The Inability To Express Feelings
We all approach the way we express what we’re really feeling differently. Some of us wear our hearts...
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Michael Schreiner | June 6, 2016
Sadism And Masochism Are Both About Control
Some forms of control are immediately clear and obvious, like being physically restrained or being subjected to a...
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Michael Schreiner | May 3, 2016
Overcoming Emotional Detachment
If you chose emotional detachment in childhood as a life solution to sustained abuse at the hands of...
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Michael Schreiner | March 7, 2016
Insidious Trauma And Neurosis
Here’s the way the DSM-V defines trauma: Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence...
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Michael Schreiner | March 4, 2016
Domination And Capitulation
What consciously manifests as the certainty in being right about a specific issue and the desire for the...
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Michael Schreiner | February 25, 2016
Afraid To Get Close
There are a million and one rationalizations to explain away the choice to remain emotionally distant in close...
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Michael Schreiner | February 2, 2016
Rationalizing Masochism, Sadism, And Emotional Detachment
We have to understand masochism, sadism, and emotional detachment not as isolated, compartmentalized behaviors that arise in certain...