Personality Articles

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• I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
  While the public is familiar with more mainstream psychological diagnoses such as depression or schizophrenia, the only knowledge most individuals have of borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from having watched Winona Ryder in the Oscar-nominated ...
• Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder
  Valerie Porr, M.A. understands intimately the ramifications of a family member suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD).  It was this experience and curiosity that led her to attend a lecture by Marsha Linehan, PhD, creator ...
• Childhood Bad Behavior Linked to Adult Chronic Pain
  Researchers have found a significant link between childhood behavioral problems and chronic pain in adulthood. Dr. Dong Pang of Aberdeen University, ...
• Being Good vs. Being Codependent
  Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good? Or are you involved in codependent ...
• Why Intelligent People Do Foolish Things
  Society is replete with examples of intelligent people doing foolish things. This seems puzzling considering that intelligent people (as indicated by intelligence tests ...
• End Procrastination Now! Get It Done with a Proven Psychological Approach
  Ever put off an activity 'til another day — which turns into a few months? Wished you would’ve started earlier on a project only to procrastinate the next time around? Missed a deadline altogether because ...
• Uptight and In Your Face: Coping with an Anxious Boss, Parent, Spouse, or Lover
  We all have to interact with people we don’t get along with at some point in our lives.  Sometimes, those people are so emotionally intense, anxious, and self-absorbed that the only word that accurately describes ...
• The Buddha & The Borderline
  The Buddha & The Borderline, by writer, artist and advocate Kiera Van Gelder, exposes a regularly hushed-up topic: borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is shrouded in stigma. There’s little information about the disorder and, while ...
• Living with Borderline Personality Disorder
  Receiving a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) may seem devastating. There’s a lot of confusion about what BPD really means and ...
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
  From a patient’s point of view, the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be an exceptionally traumatic and judgmental one.  So it is a great pleasure to be able to find a ...
• Hide and Seek: Reclaiming Childhood’s Lost Potential
  “Do I need for some reason to __________________?” This is the underlying question of Hide and Seek: Reclaiming Childhood’s Lost Potential. Geared toward those who seek to change the way they move through life, Oliker reframes ...
• The Skinny on The Art of Persuasion: How to Move Minds
  Jim Randel’s The Skinny on Persuasion: How to Move Minds was, in my opinion, the best of the Skinny series thus far. Unlike the previous books that read a bit like handbooks (entertaining nonetheless, ...
• A Brief History of Lies: The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written
  A Brief History of Lies, The Most Brilliant Book Ever Written takes both a serious and humorous look at lying; the good, bad, and the ugly.  It shockingly reveals research that shows 1 in 5 ...
• The Eight Habits of Lousy Listeners
  Most people know that one of the keys to success in relationships is good listening. Experts tell us to use “active” ...
• Who Are You? What Do You Want? Four Questions That Will Change Your Life
  Can a 176-page book and four questions provide enough information and insight to change your life? That’s a good question. It is something authors Mick Ukleja, PhD and Robert L. Lorber, PhD attempt to do ...
• Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You To Know about Shock Treatment
  Linda Andre’s Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You To Know about Shock Treatment is a book that is impossible to ignore. The book was written by a shock treatment victim who lost ...
• Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
  The daughters of narcissistic mothers have been raised by primary role models who lack the fundamentals of mothering.  Conditioned to care for their mothers rather than the reverse, these women suppress their identities at their ...
• The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life
  Quick.  Answer this: “To be happy and content, my annual income would need to be $___________.”  David Krueger M.D. and John David Mann, authors of The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions ...
• What Story Are You Living?
  What Story Are You Living?: A self-improvement guide for discovering and directing the unconscious influences that drive your life story is a well-organized, thoughtful book that can help raise self-awareness.  This book is based on ...
• Mistake Phobia
  Mistake phobia: No, it’s not a real diagnosis, although maybe it ought to be. I came up with the idea while listening to a mom talk about her 9-year-old ...
• Present Perfect
  If you're a perfectionist, have I got the book for you. It may not "cure" you of your perfectionism, but I think that if you read it with an open mind oriented toward ...
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder In-Depth
  Individuals with narcissistic personality disorder often will seem to have a grandiose sense of self-importance. They routinely overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments, often appearing boastful and pretentious. People with narcissistic personality disorder may ...
• Wedding Planning: A Rehearsal for Marriage
  You’re getting married! You and your combination true love, soulmate, and, hopefully, best friend, have talked it out and decided to commit to ...
• Challenging Negative Self-Talk
  Most people don't realize it, but as we go about our daily lives we are constantly thinking about and interpreting the situations we find ourselves in. It's as though we have an internal voice inside ...
• Where Did the Love Go? Growing Up and Growing Apart
  When I first met Joel he was 15, embattled with his parents, failing in school, and deeply, desperately in love. Bright, sensitive, and troubled by what he saw as an older generation that simply didn’t ...