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A Vote for Marriage Counseling
Read more: A Vote for Marriage CounselingFrom WebMD: Is Your Marriage Toxic? Give it time. Don’t expect the walls of resentment to come down right away. Rivkin suggests allowing at least three months to see if working with a therapist or using the advice from a relationship book is helping your marriage. Change may come slowly. But don’t be afraid of…
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Radical Acceptance
Read more: Radical AcceptanceWhen “this shouldn’t be happening” makes it worse This shouldn’t be happening. I can’t believe I’m still dealing with this. If I could just figure out the right way to think about it, it would stop bothering me. A lot of what hurts about a hard situation comes from the fight with it: the part…
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Ovulation, Personality, and Perception
Read more: Ovulation, Personality, and PerceptionThree from PsychCentral: Racier Clothing Choices for Ovulating Women Adult Behavior Follows Childhood Personality Brain Activity Influenced by Perceptions and Attitude
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Should We Manipulate Our Dreams?
Read more: Should We Manipulate Our Dreams?The NYT asks assorted pros an Inception-inspired question: “Nightmares have been seen variously as omens or sources of self-knowledge. Should we replace them with happier dreams?”
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A Life in Therapy
Read more: A Life in TherapyMy Life in Therapy, from the NYT Magazine, has Daphne Merkin recalling years spent in psychoanalysis. Projection. Repression. Acting out. Defenses. Secondary compensation. Transference. Even in these quick-fix, medicated times, when people are more likely to look to Wellbutrin and life coaches than to the mystique-surrounded, intangible promise of psychoanalysis, these words speak to me…