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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | October 6, 2016Cultural Watchdog
Anyone who thinks in terms of well-adjusted or maladjusted is an unwitting cultural watchdog, a sort of unofficial...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | October 2, 2016The Tyranny Of The Shoulds
Shoulds are the inflexible, authoritarian, joyless rules for thinking, feeling, and behaving that people subject themselves to at...
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Couples
Michael Schreiner | October 1, 2016Do Not Punish Your Partner
By punishing your partner we mean enacting all those conscious and sometimes unconscious changes in typical patterns of...
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Anxiety
Michael Schreiner | September 30, 2016Understanding Phobias
Phobias are irrational, debilitating fears of objects like spiders, heights, or being stuck in enclosed spaces that really...
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Behavioral Psychology
Michael Schreiner | September 29, 2016Fear Of Heights
If you have a debilitating fear of heights, if your fear has moved past the rational recognition of...
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Behavioral Psychology
Michael Schreiner | September 27, 2016Frustration Tolerance Is Anger Management
People dealing with anger management problems are less aware of their surroundings at and around the onset of...
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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | September 27, 2016Oedipal Complex Reinterpreted
Freud misinterpreted the meaning of the Oedipus story and his own take can only be called insane. Basically...
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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | September 26, 2016The Psychology of Materialism
At the deeper psychological level materialism is an attempted shortcut to happiness and well-being. It’s a substitution for...
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Narrative Therapy
Michael Schreiner | September 26, 2016Understand Narrative Therapy
Human beings are story tellers. We understand the world and one another through stories, we recount events in...
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Narrative Therapy
Michael Schreiner | September 25, 2016Question Your Labels
The problem with being labeled, even when the label in question is culturally desirable, is that your available...