All posts tagged "control"
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Michael Schreiner | June 8, 2018
Controlling Behavior In Relationships
Conflict And Power In intimate relationships power will always play some role since underlying values and the wants...
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Michael Schreiner | June 7, 2018
Catastrophizing And Control In Relationships
Catastrophizing Stems From Anxiety Catastrophizing is a faulty thinking pattern where future worst-case scenarios are imagined out of...
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Michael Schreiner | February 26, 2018
Understanding the Authoritarian Ethic
Power Over Others Is the Name of the Game The authoritarian ethic can best be understood by phrases...
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Michael Schreiner | January 26, 2018
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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Michael Schreiner | January 4, 2018
Ambivalence While Grieving
Simultaneous Contradictory Thoughts and Feelings Ambivalence, which is holding simultaneous contradictory thoughts or feelings, is a disconcerting experience...
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Michael Schreiner | August 2, 2017
Not Wanting To Cede Control To Controlling People
Many relationships come to be defined by one person’s endeavor to amass and maintain control over the other...
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Michael Schreiner | May 30, 2017
Fear And Intimidation
People who use fear and intimidation to get their way are usually perceived as fearless and intimidating by...
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Michael Schreiner | April 18, 2017
Help For Procrastinators
If you are a procrastinator the number one thing you need to understand is that your life attitude...
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Michael Schreiner | March 2, 2017
Abuse And ‘Us Against The World’
A common predicament victims in abusive relationships face is increasing isolation from friends and family members. Abusers find...
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Michael Schreiner | January 3, 2017
Letting Go Of Control
The need to control is always and everywhere about the hidden need to reduce painful existential anxiety. Anxiety...