Does feeling ambivalent about people you love make you feel guilty? Ambivalence is unavoidable. Not being able to tolerate it is a problem.

Repetitive acting out can be an attempt to master a traumatic experience or to maintain a fragile sense of self that is based on identifying as a victim.

Destructive patterns in relationships can be explained in various ways but they all need to be identified with insight and worked through.

The capacity to work through and resolve conflicts, rather than ignore or only partially work through them, is at the heart of safety and security in a relationship.

A Personal Perspective: Do you feel guilty as if your feelings were actions?

The self-righteous narcissist derives his narcissistic validation and supply by maintaining himself as a morally superior person or a hero.

Can psychotherapy serve as a model for working through microaggressions that occur in colleges and universities?

In general, the fear of regret is the greatest enemy of good decision-making. But for people with narcissistic issues, the fear of regret is linked with the fear of shame.

Some hypochondriacs search for an ideal mother concerned about their pain, while others displace their psychological fragility onto physical symptoms.

Can mask mandates put employees enforcing them in danger?