Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life
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12/01/2008 Understanding the Predatory Aggressive, Part 2 Disordered characters, especially predators, don’t really want us to know who they really are. They tell us what they think we want to hear so that we will think them more like us. Read more at this website... 12/01/2008 The 200 Year Present Moment The experiment is to get in touch with 100 years before and after your birth. Why 100 years? This is the time span that we are fairly directly personally connected to: from our grandparents to our grandchildren, roughly speaking. Read more at this website... 11/25/2008 Are Children Saner? What happens to us? Adults know so much more than children, but some of us don’t seem nearly as good as children at knowing our needs and functioning in relationships. Read more at this website... 11/24/2008 Understanding the Predatory Aggressive Personality Predatory Aggressive Personalities (i.e., psychopaths or sociopaths) consider themselves superior to the rest of the human race. They view individuals with inhibitions rooted in emotional bonding to others as inferior creatures and, therefore, their rightful prey. Read more at this website... 11/19/2008 Beware the Covert-Aggressive Personality The covert-aggressive personality employs a potent one-two punch: the covert-aggressive conceals aggressive intent to ensure you never really see what's coming; and he or she exploits your normal sensitivities, conscientiousness and other vulnerabilities to manipulate you into succumbing. Read more at this website... 11/18/2008 If Counselling Is Learning, What Kind of Learning? Counselling may be a kind of learning process -- of learning to live differently. But what kind of learning is this? The kind of learning we do in school? Or some other kind? Read more at this website... 11/15/2008 Over 1000 Reader Comments and Questions on ‘Losers’ and Personality Disorders To help our server deliver a snappier response time for the thousands of readers of our threads on Dr Carver’s ‘Loser’ article — the most recent of which has attracted over 350 new comments, we’re going to open this new thread and close the previous one. Combined with around 175 questions on personality disorders submitted to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ service, we’ve now had over 1000 questions and comments from readers affected by this topic. Read more at this website... 11/13/2008 Understanding the Sadistic Personality Sadists love to build themselves up at the expense of others. It makes them feel powerful to wield almost tyrannical influence over those they perceive as weaker or inferior. They derive pleasure from watching others cower, grovel, or struggle in one-down positions. Read more at this website... 11/12/2008 Understanding the Channeled-Aggressive Personality The Channeled-Aggressives in our midst want everyone to know that they are a power to be reckoned with and have little regard for those whom they perceive to be less tenacious. They might even regard it as a perverted indication of respect if others cower in their presence. Do you know someone like this? Read more at this website... 11/10/2008 Is Counselling Unlearning? We usually come to counselling with a pain or problem we want fixed. It may be that we find we need to unlearn patterns of feeling and behaviour. It may be that counselling is more about unlearning than learning. Read more at this website... |
