-
Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | November 26, 2015Thanksgiving Miracle
Many people are going to be stuffing their faces full of food tonight until they can’t eat one...
-
Parenting
Michael Schreiner | November 25, 2015The Toll Of Abandonment
We’ve written a lot about the severe psychological toll of abandonment. From our psychoanalytic point of view, the...
-
Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | November 23, 2015Fundamental Rationalizations
We’ve written a great deal about the role rationalizations play in everyday life. Whether big or small they...
-
Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | November 18, 2015Victimized By Scam Artists
We’re not talking here about the full on scam artists who manipulate the actions of their targets through...
-
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | November 13, 2015The Problem With Hope
Despair is as much a deterrent of focused activity as hope is a motivator of focused activity. The problem...
-
Individual Counseling
Michael Schreiner | November 11, 2015Transfer Of Responsibility In Therapy
One of the principle dangers of starting up therapy is the psychological transfer of responsibility for life problems...
-
Behavioral Psychology
Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015Sadistic Teachers And Coaches
Some teachers and coaches claim that the only way to motivate certain students and players is through getting...
-
Emotions
Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015Working Out Emotional Knots
In Gestalt psychology when people have had something bad happen to them and haven’t really worked through it,...
-
Neurosis
Michael Schreiner | November 10, 2015Shaking Off Emotional Detachment
Our conceptualization of emotional detachment is based around the premise that it’s a chosen response to adverse environmental...
-
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Michael Schreiner | November 9, 2015Grief As A Symbol For Love
Of all the ways we have tried to help grievers bear up under the weight of loss there...