Personality Articles
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- Sensitive Children Who Develop Significant Anxiety
In recent months I happened to work with a number of elementary-age children who had developed ...
- Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time? The very premise of Two ...
- Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads
It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old ...
- The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic and Release Your Inner Creative Spirit
Part sketchbook, part tutorial, part self-help and part art project, Deborah Putnoi’s The Drawing Mind is a book like you’ve never seen before. The subtitle gets to the heart of it: Silence Your Inner Critic ...
- Adolescent Tragedies and My Teenager
Once again I am writing about a terrible tragedy. Fifteen dead children. Fifteen lives ...
- Problems of Codependents
Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
- Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
Sometimes the title of a book is so intriguing that you can barely contain your eagerness in wanting to begin reading it.
Such may be the case for you as well with Better Than Normal: ...
- Symptoms of Codependency
The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
- Do You Love a Narcissist?
It’s easy to fall in love with narcissists. Their charm, talent, success, beauty, and charisma cast a spell, ...
- 5 Relationship Myths
Many of us have read the fairy tales and seen the movies. There’s the handsome prince who comes to save the day ...
- Dealing with Difficult People
In an article titled “Becoming Adept at Dealing with Difficult People and Avoiding Conflict,” Elizabeth Scott states people should “work to maintain ...
- Parents Gone Wild at Easter Egg Hunt
The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to ...
- Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
- Obama On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
In 1979, a dictionary definition of the term ‘science fiction’ summarized it as “stories which do not imitate the events of the real world, such as the Earth being struck by a comet, or a ...
- What Helps Children To Be Successful Adults?
Last month, an article in the Boston Globe reported on the resiliency of adults. Primarily based on the longitudinal studies by George Vallient from Harvard, ...
- My 3-Year-Old Son Wants To Be Cinderella!
Our playgroup of preschoolers recently attended a production of “Cinderella.” All the children were enamored with the costumes, music and beauty of ...
- 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
“Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
- The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
I think everyone’s a little narcissistic. We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling. We also ...
- ‘Tis the Season to Regress
What is it that makes perfectly reasonable adults start to act like teenagers as soon as they hit their parents’ front door? ...
- House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated
When I was a psychology major, part of our lab work involved observing people through a one-way mirror. In House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated, edited by Drs. Ted Cascio and Leonard Martin, the one-way ...
- Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known previously as multiple personality disorder, is not a real disorder. At least, that’s what you ...
- How To Read People Like an FBI Profiler
What do you make of a neighbor who’s married, has kids, dresses in a suit daily, rarely misses ...
- 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
- The Emotional Vulnerability of Borderline Personality Disorder
Imagine you have a cut. The skin around your cut heals. But it heals all wrong. The scarred tissue ...
- Learning from Resilient Kids
In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
