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Abusive Romantic Relationships
There are many psychological mechanisms at play to obscure the reality that abuse is occurring in a romantic...
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Activity Is A Key to Beating Depression
A loss of energy is one of the central features of depression. When people are depressed they find...
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Four Noble Truths
In his book ‘To Have or To Be’ Erich Fromm proposes a variation on the four noble truths...
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Getting Over Guilt
A scene from ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is worth discussing because variations of it occur when tragedy strikes in relationships...
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Losing Interest
One of the criteria for diagnosing depression is diminished interest in activities that used to seem pleasurable. We...
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Heaven On Earth
You’ve probably heard this story. A man is approached by an angel who offers to reveal the answer...
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Forgive And Remember
The expression ‘forgive and forget’ is a poor way to make amends. It runs against a key psychological...
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Destructive Impulses
The movie ‘God Bless America’ is a good format to discuss psychological principles of repression, rationalization, externalization, and...
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Road Map Metaphor
Metaphors can be useful to ground complicated concepts. The best teachers use metaphors all the time. We are...
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Rejection Sensitivity
People at risk for becoming depressed worry more about what others think about them than the general population....
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