Neurosis
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015
Shaking Off Emotional Detachment
Our conceptualization of emotional detachment is based around the premise that it’s a chosen response to adverse environmental...
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Michael Schreiner | October 22, 2015
Vary Your Mode Of Relating
The three general modes of relating to people and the world can be called moving moving towards, moving...
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Michael Schreiner | September 17, 2015
Emotional Wounds Are Like Physical Wounds
From the psychoanalytic point of view the paradox occurs that areas of conversation where people feel at ease,...
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Michael Schreiner | September 11, 2015
Emotional Detachment Is Not The Inability To Access Emotions
Emotional detachment is a response, usually taken in childhood, to adverse environmental conditions. It’s a rather clever way...
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Michael Schreiner | June 18, 2015
Walls Are Closing In
“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.” – Erich Fromm Being...
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Michael Schreiner | June 12, 2015
Detached Personality And Groups
People with detached personality abhor groups and actively avoid membership in them. The rationalization for this avoidance will...
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Michael Schreiner | June 9, 2015
Detached Personality And Interpersonal Conflict
If you’ve read our other articles on emotional detachment it probably won’t surprise you to hear that people...
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Michael Schreiner | April 23, 2015
Rationalization Versus Denial
Rationalization is the preferred strategy to continue with maladaptive thought and behavior patterns in the face of mounting...
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Michael Schreiner | April 6, 2015
Neurosis And Death Anxiety
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being.” – Paul Tillich Anxiety is central to the...
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Michael Schreiner | April 6, 2015
Rationalization
A rationalization is a psychological strategy that allows for continued thoughts and behaviors that are known at some...