Psychoanalysis
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Holding Distorted Images of Others
Idealization Many people come to therapy because intimates in their lives have let them down. They expected perfectly...
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Powerful Unconscious Psychological Forces
Intense Emotional Reactions When an emotional reaction seems incommensurate with the event that occasions it we can be...
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Understanding the Authoritarian Ethic
Power Over Others Is the Name of the Game The authoritarian ethic can best be understood by phrases...
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Abandonment And Controlling Behavior
Protecting Against the Dreaded Outcome of Abandonment We have written about how people who were abandoned in childhood...
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Cutting Through The Vicious Cycle Of Addiction
The Attempt to Reduce Unwanted States of Being The vicious cycle of addiction lies in the fact that...
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The Paradox Of Abandonment
Increasing Intimacy People who were abandoned by primary caregivers in childhood face certain challenges when it comes to...
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Moving on in a Healthy Way
The Nature of Existence is Impermanence Given that the nature of existence in general and human existence in...
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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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Anxiety is the Feeling of Helplessness in a Hostile World
A Working Definition for Anxiety As funny as it sounds, most people don’t have a working definition for...
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If You Want To Change In Therapy You Have Got To Go All In
A threat to the change and growth of the client in therapy is that responsibility for that change...
