Psychoanalysis
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Michael Schreiner | March 21, 2016
Transformation In Counseling
As a counselor, if you aren’t conscious of the unconscious pull your clients feel to use you as...
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Michael Schreiner | March 18, 2016
Inferiority And Superiority Are The Same
Feelings of superiority and feelings of inferiority are not distinct ways of being but rather two sides of...
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Michael Schreiner | March 14, 2016
Relationship Demands
There are certain unconscious demands we place upon our partners. These demands usually have to do with righting...
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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 17, 2016
Raising Conscious Awareness
What we notice time and time again when working with new clients is that they believe they’ve isolated...
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Michael Schreiner | February 9, 2016
Sadism Explained
The typical picture of a sadist is of someone who gains emotional and or sexual satisfaction from humiliating...
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Michael Schreiner | February 8, 2016
Masochism Explained
From the psychoanalytic point of view masochism is a life orientation, a fundamental solution to the problem of...
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Michael Schreiner | February 4, 2016
Productive Frustration
Frustration arises when a behavior that leads to an expected reinforcement suddenly and unexpectedly ceases to be reinforced....