Boundaries and Dysfunctional Family Systems
Having covered the preliminaries, we can start to get to the meat of why knowing about boundaries is important for effective therapy. There are ideal shapes that boundaries should have, and ideal filtering capabilities too. Psychological problems are very likely to occur when boundaries get bent far out of their ideal shape. More...

Shame and Avoidant Personality Disorder
There is probably no more difficult and painful emotion than shame. Shame involves complete self-condemnation. It is a major attack against the self in which the individual believes they will be found utterly unacceptable by society. As a result of its overwhelming force, shame causes feelings of disgrace and dishonor. A person who feels shame wants to hide from everyone. More...

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In the humanistic vision, human dysfunctions are caused by a faulty or interrupted development process; essentially human problems are due to immaturity, generally of the social/emotional variety. By helping patients to resume their derailed developmental processes in healthy directions, patients are helped to grow up and out of the immature mental and emotional states that cause them to be in pain themselves and to inflict pain upon others. More...

Violence and Trauma: Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007
It is difficult to imagine the type of despair that drove the shooter at Virginia Tech to commit such a shocking and murderous act. What the rest of us need to learn is how to protect ourselves from this steady diet of horror. If we do not protect ourselves the consequences could be either: 1) we will be afraid to leave our homes out of paralyzing phobia or 2) we will become numb to the loss of human life. More...

Concerning Problems Within AA
Most people who've written in defense of AA say something to the effect that AA helped them but they recognize that there are some difficulties with the organization. You might think that those saying negative things about AA would have a little something positive to say too, but by and large they don't. The negative comments are very polarized; very black and white. Very absolutist in nature. They actively try to shame. More...