Psychoanalysis
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Michael Schreiner | November 28, 2017
Healthy Vulnerability Versus Unhealthy Vulnerability
Most of us believe vulnerability in intimate relationships is either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on whether our relationships...
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Michael Schreiner | November 21, 2017
Increasing Responsibility Is Increasing Power
Most of us believe we’re the heroes or the victims of our own life stories. We cycle through...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2017
Understanding The Stages Of Change
While motivational interviewing was originally conceived as a way to treat drug and alcohol addiction its applications are...
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Michael Schreiner | November 9, 2017
Apathy And Despair
Apathy and despair are related. We might say that apathy is the behavioral manifestation of the deeper, usually...
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Michael Schreiner | November 8, 2017
Help For People Pleasers
On the surface people pleasers seem laid back, amiable, and happy to go with the flow. But underneath,...
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Michael Schreiner | November 3, 2017
Emotional Detachment And Anxiety
In emotional detachment there’s nothing wrong with the emotional apparatus per se. People with emotional detachment are capable...
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Michael Schreiner | October 20, 2017
Managing Death Anxiety
There’s nothing particularly neurotic about death anxiety and in fact we might make the opposite case: Excluding the...
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Michael Schreiner | October 4, 2017
Repetition Compulsion
To understand the psychological mechanism of repetition compulsion we must first understand the elevated place of the primary...
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Michael Schreiner | October 3, 2017
Irrational Authority and Off-Limits Subjects
Whether we’re talking about the patriarch of a nuclear family, a politician in a society, or any authority...
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Michael Schreiner | September 26, 2017
Unhealthy Family Systems
In unhealthy family systems we usually find one member of that family identified as ‘sick’. This is the...