Collecting Evidence from Your True Self
Our identity is defined by our conscious beliefs, values, passions and motives. For most, we do not know our true self, what we believe...
12 Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families
Last week, we looked at 11 rules commonly found in families where any variety of dysfunction exists, including Adult Children of...
6 Ways Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Can Help You
Would you want to work with just any therapist, or would you rather work with one who could be more effective than his or her peers?...
11 Rules You Didn't Know Families Had
Children who grew up in dysfunctional families often feel their experiences were unique, and that no one else can identify with what they...
Feeling Substitution: Tit for Tat
Feelings are essential to our lives and well-being, because they give us information about what is going on around us and inside of us....
Internal Drama Triangle: Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round
Each of us has created an Internal Drama Triangle in our lives. It happens on an unconscious level to help us survive difficult...
The Internal Drama Triangle: Let's All Get On the Merry-Go-Round
The Drama Triangle is a model of dysfunctional interactions, created by Steven Karpman. It happens both with internal thoughts, and in...
The Harsh Inner Critic
Have you ever wondered why one criticism or piece of feedback will wipe out ten compliments? That happens because of the Harsh Inner...
Maleficent: Not Your Typical Sleeping Beauty Story
The first known version of Sleeping Beauty was written in the 1300s. Walt Disney’s animated version brought the story to the general...
Better to be Bad in a Good World Than Good in a Bad World
Current cinema is flooded with movies about the “end of the world.” A catastrophic event occurs, the world as we know it is destroyed,...