All posts tagged "abandonment"
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Abandonment And Controlling Behavior
Protecting Against the Dreaded Outcome of Abandonment We have written about how people who were abandoned in childhood...
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The Paradox Of Abandonment
Increasing Intimacy People who were abandoned by primary caregivers in childhood face certain challenges when it comes to...
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The Threat Of Abandonment In Romantic Relationships
No matter how healthy and safe environmental conditions were for people as children or how emotionally and psychologically...
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The Toll Of Abandonment
We’ve written a lot about the severe psychological toll of abandonment. From our psychoanalytic point of view, the...
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Understanding Clinginess
The most straightforward explanation for clinginess is that it’s the psychological response to the fear of abandonment. But...
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Distance Patterns
A common scenario in burgeoning romantic relationships is where one partner feels threatened by increasing emotional closeness and...
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Abandonment
Here is a poem that was written by a patient of Rollo May’s. It evokes powerful feelings of...
