All posts tagged "responsibility"
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Understanding the Masochistic Life Solution
Repeated Exposure to Trauma Repeated exposure to abuse, abandonment, or other trauma produces seemingly unbearable amounts of anxiety....
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Responding To Criticism
Is the Criticism Just or Unjust? The psychological trick in responding to criticism is in figuring out whether...
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Endings and Anxiety
Mortality Lurks in the Background Many of us have a really hard time with endings. Why? Because they...
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Holding Distorted Images of Others
Idealization Many people come to therapy because intimates in their lives have let them down. They expected perfectly...
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Fortune Telling And The Status Quo
Predicting the Future With Absolute Certainty Elected leaders intent on maintaining the status quo purposefully employ a faulty...
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Deciding To Spend More Time In The Here And Now
Regressive and Progressive Forces Battle for Supremacy The two most powerful unconscious forces in human life move in...
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The Draw of Being the Victim in a Relationship
Victimhood Implies Innocence At the conscious level none of us want to be victims. Being victimized means getting...
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Increasing Responsibility Is Increasing Power
Most of us believe we’re the heroes or the victims of our own life stories. We cycle through...
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Waiting For Your Therapist To Cure You
The therapeutic relationship provides an opportunity for the projection of responsibility for life problems. Many people who end...
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The Common Denominator Is You
One of the most common mechanisms by which we seek to protect our fragile egos is the projection...
