All posts tagged "love"
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Michael Schreiner | April 29, 2016
Self-Actualization And Sticking With One Interest
If you have spread your time and attention amongst different hobbies, activities, and disciplines throughout your life and...
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Michael Schreiner | April 18, 2016
Work To Keep Your Relationship Strong When Things Are Going Well
The problem with things going well in just about any sphere of life is that one of the...
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Michael Schreiner | January 12, 2016
Become Aware Of Your Life Intentions
We can think of life intentions as similar to setting intentions at the beginning of a yoga class....
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Michael Schreiner | November 25, 2015
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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Michael Schreiner | November 4, 2015
Self-Love As A Rationalization For Narcissism
Narcissists all over the world jump on board the self-love band wagon. For example, they post their superficial...
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Michael Schreiner | October 28, 2015
Narcissism Versus Love
Narcissism makes a suspicious distinction between Self and Other. Anything considered the same as Self must be good...
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Michael Schreiner | September 11, 2015
Emotional Detachment Is Not The Inability To Access Emotions
Emotional detachment is a response, usually taken in childhood, to adverse environmental conditions. It’s a rather clever way...
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Michael Schreiner | September 10, 2015
Sadism And Rationalization
There are very few sadists out there who would consciously categorize themselves as sadists. For one thing it’s...
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Michael Schreiner | September 3, 2015
Causing Suffering
It’s easy to get down on the human race when we stop to think about how much suffering...
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Michael Schreiner | June 4, 2015
Love As Active Interest
If love were synonymous with unconditional acceptance then it would be hard to get behind the idea of...