Psychoanalysis
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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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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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Forgiving Wrongdoing
When we feel that we’ve been wronged the instinct is to seek revenge, to punish the perpetrator for...
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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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Destructive Leaders Produce Destructive Followers
Gods, parents, and leaders of all stripes share the same privileged psychological position in the minds of the...
