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Why Our Emotional Suffering Persists
Key findings from psychoanalysis expose the sources of our suffering. Were we born to suffer? William Wordsworth seemed to think so when he wrote: “Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark. And shares...
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Speeding Up Our Evolution
It's time to really know ourselves. With the right knowledge, we can quickly become happier and more evolved. Our emotional and behavioral problems emerge from blind-spots in our psyche. As we uncover...
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Our Messy Mix of Aggression and Passivity
We produce both reactive aggression and unhealthy passivity in our psyche. Here we stand, aggressively destroying our planet while passively letting it happen. We simply don’t have a lot of insight...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
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Finding Inner Longitude
Self-knowledge serves as an important instrument of emotional navigation. The marine chronometer invented in the 18th Century made ocean navigation much more precise. The chronometer determined...
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A Chaos Theory of the Mind
There are some childish things we still retain and need to put away. As adults, we like to think we’ve put away most childish things. But infantile and childish ways of experiencing ourselves and life...
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Four Steps to Stifle Our Inner Critic
Our inner critic is a cruel callous bully, as well as a big fat liar. We all have an active inner critic. It’s a force of human nature that I can, in whimsical moments, visualize as the leader of an...
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Releasing Inner Passivity
Inner passivity can be released by acquiring deeper self-knowledge. If your life’s no fun, you may be plagued by inner passivity. If you’re feeling stuck, unsettled, weak, trapped, overwhelmed, or...
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When Life Becomes Unreal and Dreamlike
Depersonalization serves as a defense to cover up inner conflict in the psyche. Many millions of people frequently experience themselves in a pronounced state of unreality, in what can be described as...
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How to Recognize Good Psychotherapy
Good therapy uncovers inner conflict, defenses, and emotional attachments. Psychotherapy can be very helpful—and, in some cases, essential—for success, self-fulfillment, and future happiness. But it...
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Cognitive Therapy’s Flawed Premise
Psychology needs to shine light on the source of distress and dysfunction. People struggling to realize their potential or find inner peace often turn to psychotherapy. Yet they find themselves...
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The Perils of Past, Present, and Future
Past, present, and future walk into a bar. Suddenly everyone becomes very tense. End of joke, in case you didn’t get it. Really, it’s no laughing matter if you allow past, present, and future to walk...
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Our Messy Mix of Aggression and Passivity
We produce both reactive aggression and unhealthy passivity in our psyche.Here we stand, aggressively destroying our planet while passively letting it happen. We simply don’t have a lot of insight into...
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O Shame, Where is Thy Secret Source?
Self-knowledge helps us to penetrate more deeply into the roots of shame. Shame is a powerful and self-damaging emotion, and many books in recent years have tackled the subject in search of its roots....
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Finding Inner Longitude
The marine chronometer invented in the 18th Century made ocean navigation much more precise. The chronometer determined longitude, and it enabled sailors to avoid ramming their ships into unexpected...
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A Chaos Theory of the Mind
As adults, we like to think we’ve put away most childish things. But infantile and childish ways of experiencing ourselves and life linger in our unconscious mind. That baby in the adult’s psyche can...
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Four Steps to Stifle Our Inner Critic
We all have an active inner critic. It’s a force of human nature that I can, in whimsical moments, visualize as the leader of an outlaw trio that includes the gun-slinging desperado, Yosemite Sam, and...
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Releasing Inner Passivity
If your life’s no fun, you may be plagued by inner passivity. If you’re feeling stuck, unsettled, weak, trapped, overwhelmed, or anxious, you’re very likely under the influence of inner passivity.Inner...
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When Life Becomes Unreal and Dreamlike
Many millions of people frequently experience themselves in a pronounced state of unreality, in what can be described as an out-of-body, vague, dreamlike mental-emotional condition. Depersonalization...
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How to Recognize Good Psychotherapy
Good therapy uncovers inner conflict, defenses, and emotional attachments. Psychotherapy can be very helpful—and, in some cases, essential—for success, self-fulfillment, and future happiness. But it...
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