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Anxiety
Michael Schreiner | August 21, 2018Running From Responsibility
At the superficial level the reason people shirk responsibility is that responsibility implies hard work and implies the...
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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | August 17, 2018Expecting a Partner to Fulfill a Role
One of the big blindspots in romantic relationships, and the hidden reason so many of them don’t work...
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Narrative Therapy
Michael Schreiner | August 14, 2018Narrative Therapy For Emotional Detachment
While emotional detachment is a defense mechanism taken to reduce feelings of helplessness in a hostile world, partners...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | July 27, 2018Emotional Detachment and Not Caring
The commonly held belief is that those with emotional detachment don’t care about much of anything, that they...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | July 26, 2018Common Rationalizations of Emotional Detachment
When we understand that longstanding patterns of maladaptive behavior usually serve vital psychological and emotional functions despite their...
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Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | July 25, 2018Emotional Detachment and Approaching Conflict in Relationships
Since emotional detachment as a life solution is about withdrawing from people and the world in order to...
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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | July 19, 2018Forgiving Wrongdoing
When we feel that we’ve been wronged the instinct is to seek revenge, to punish the perpetrator for...
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Mindfulness
Michael Schreiner | July 12, 2018The Time to Self-Actualize is Now
“You have an appointment with life, and that appointment is in the present moment. If you miss the...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | July 11, 2018Improving a Distressed Relationship
Actively Questioning Taken For Granted Biases Improving a distressed relationship starts with actively questioning the taken for granted...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | July 5, 2018Overgeneralizing
A Global Conclusion Based on a Specific Example Overgeneralizing is a common faulty thinking pattern where we draw...