Search results for "emotional"
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Michael Schreiner | May 3, 2016
Overcoming Emotional Detachment
If you chose emotional detachment in childhood as a life solution to sustained abuse at the hands of...
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Michael Schreiner | February 12, 2016
What To Do When Witnessing Emotional Abuse
It’s hard to know exactly what to do when we think we’re witnessing instances of abuse. When it’s...
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Michael Schreiner | February 2, 2016
Rationalizing Masochism, Sadism, And Emotional Detachment
We have to understand masochism, sadism, and emotional detachment not as isolated, compartmentalized behaviors that arise in certain...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015
Working Out Emotional Knots
In Gestalt psychology when people have had something bad happen to them and haven’t really worked through it,...
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Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015
Shaking Off Emotional Detachment
Our conceptualization of emotional detachment is based around the premise that it’s a chosen response to adverse environmental...
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Michael Schreiner | September 17, 2015
Emotional Wounds Are Like Physical Wounds
From the psychoanalytic point of view the paradox occurs that areas of conversation where people feel at ease,...
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Michael Schreiner | September 11, 2015
Emotional Detachment Is Not The Inability To Access Emotions
Emotional detachment is a response, usually taken in childhood, to adverse environmental conditions. It’s a rather clever way...
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Michael Schreiner | March 16, 2015
Masochism Versus Emotional Detachment
We have written about how those with detached personality are likely to rationalize their compulsive emotional detachment on...
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Michael Schreiner | March 9, 2015
Emotional Detachment In Relationships
If you’re in a relationship with someone struggling with emotional detachment you’ve probably noticed that it’s during conflict...
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Michael Schreiner | March 5, 2015
Unwanted Emotional States
People usually seek professional help when they can no longer stand the way they’re feeling. In this sense...