Freudian Slip of The Day
Anger Management: Recommended Books
How Often Do People Do It? On YouTube
Take a guess how often people do it.
You might be surprised by how often some people are doing it and how often others are not doing it.
I hope you enjoy the strip tease music courtesy of YouTube.
Recommended Books
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Deep Thought for The Day
Anyone with training in family therapy immediately knows what this means.
Anyone who has watched “Everybody Loves Raymond” also has a sense of how intrusive some family members can be to the dismay of other family members. We say that these families don’t have a sense of proper boundaries--they are “enmeshed.”
Six Steps to A World-Class Apology
I have been able to identify six steps that need to be taken to deliver a “world-class apology” worthy of, and likely to elicit, a genuine response of forgiveness.
Read More...An Example of Non-Verbal Intimacy
This example nicely illustrates the general ideas that (1) intimate experience is a product of intimate behavior, (2) non-verbal behaviors can produce intimate experience, and (3) intimate experience consists of a sense of shared understanding accompanied by some positive feeling(s).
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The Art of Love: The Conversational Palette
Model of Love
In couples therapy, one of the first things I do is to introduce a model of love and encourage partners to use this model to understand their own relationship. Psychologist Robert Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love characterizes love relationships as being constituted by different combinations of three elements: Intimacy, Passion and Commitment. Different types of love can be described by different combinations of these three elements.
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