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Parenting
Michael Schreiner | November 2, 2017Parenting And Dealing With Disobedience
Many parents of young children here in the West instinctively view obedience as a virtue and disobedience as...
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Anxiety
Michael Schreiner | October 20, 2017Managing 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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Emotions
Michael Schreiner | October 18, 2017Wanting To Be Able To Cry Again
Many adults, particularly males, come to yearn for the lost ability to feel really sad and especially to...
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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | October 17, 2017Freedom And Tabus
Often what we really believe we must do or can’t do is actually something that we choose to...
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Self-Actualization
Michael Schreiner | October 16, 2017Changing From The Inside Out
When people are unhappy and unfulfilled they realize something needs to change in their lives, but the change...
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Mindfulness
Michael Schreiner | October 10, 2017Compassionate Listening Explained
When most people listen to others they knowingly or unknowingly place themselves and their own psychological, emotional, or...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | October 4, 2017Repetition Compulsion
To understand the psychological mechanism of repetition compulsion we must first understand the elevated place of the primary...
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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | October 4, 2017Make Your Pursuits Challenging But Doable
Regardless of the pursuit in question there’s a tightrope to walk if you want to stay interested and...
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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | October 3, 2017Irrational 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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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | September 26, 2017Unhealthy Family Systems
In unhealthy family systems we usually find one member of that family identified as ‘sick’. This is the...