Relationships & Love Articles

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• The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
  Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
• 7 Tips on Developing and Maintaining a Successful Intimate Relationship
  You probably wish to develop and maintain a successful intimate relationship. Unfortunately you, like many others, might ...
• Sleeping With Gods
  The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
• Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship
  Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
• Debunking 6 Myths About Asperger Syndrome
  The discovery of Asperger Syndrome (AS) dates back to 1944. Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described the syndrome when he was ...
• College Life: Freshman Friends
  Perhaps it has already happened to you. In the first week or two of school, you quickly made a group out of the ...
• The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
  I am what science calls a singleton. And according to G. Stanley Hall, a psychologist, professor and the first president of the American Psychological Association, I am without a doubt narcissistic, spoiled and a bumbling ...
• The Blame Game: The Complete Guide to Blaming
  Blame is a universal concept that most human beings experience at one point or another in their lives. For most of us, blaming behavior has become so second nature, that it goes unnoticed and ignored ...
• I Love You. Now Change.
  She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
• Women Who Love Psychopaths
  This book has many reasons to recommend it. Two are most powerful. First, its postulation through neuroscientific indications that the psychopath's brain is genetically different from his fellows and so he cannot change is paramount ...
• Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
  By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist.  At age 40, he was a mature ...
• Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Creating a Better Life
  Charlette Mikulka — psychotherapist, social worker, wife, and mother — has created an incredibly all-encompassing book with Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your ...
• Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t
  Author Carl Alasko’s previous book, Emotional Bullshit, was well-received, and it is not hard to see why.  His new work, Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t, provides a perspective ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Bipolar Disorder: Helping Your Loved One Manage a Manic Episode
  "Depression and bipolar disorder are often family diseases,” according to Psych Central associate editor and author ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 2
  When your loved one has borderline personality disorder (BPD), you might feel like you’re already ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 1
  Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can seem like an enigma, even to family and friends, who ...
• Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis
  Attachment theory has come a long way since John Bowlby’s paper “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves” was published in 1944. In the paper Bowlby wrote about his work with disturbed youth in London. He theorized for the ...
• Is Technology Running Your Life? Set Some Boundaries
  I am not very good at separating my work from my life, partially because my work is a big ...
• When Conversations Go Wrong: The Anatomy of Disconnection in Relationships
  Ever feel like your conversations with your partner get lost in translation? Or that a seemingly ...
• The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
  The Long Goodbye by poet and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke is a beautifully written and poignant memoir about grappling with a mother’s death. In the first of three sections, O’Rourke recounts her mother's colon cancer ...
• ADHD’s Impact on Relationships: 10 Tips to Help
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can dramatically affect a relationship. Research has shown that a person with ADHD ...
• 8 Surprising Myths About Relationships
  There are hundreds of myths about relationships, according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, a Michigan clinical psychologist and author of ...
• A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis
  Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
• 10 Tips for Setting Boundaries Online
  Good boundaries are important for healthy relationships, but when it comes to our online lives, we rarely think to ...