Do You Know the Prescription for Unhealthy Relationships?
Are you involved with an abusive, controlling or manipulative partner? A new series of face to face workshops built around the work of our Consulting Clinical Psychologist Dr Joseph M Carver aims to help.
Have you been in a relationship with a ‘loser’?
It’s a blanket term which our Consulting Clinical Psychologist Dr Joseph M Carver uses to describe a range of behaviours often associated with personality disorders. Through acclaimed papers like “Identifying Losers in Relationships” and “Love and Stockholm Syndrome: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser“, Dr Carver has brought some clarity about personality disorders to the people who suffer through relationships with them. Literally hundreds of comments have been left on this very blog from those involved with ‘losers’, and large numbers of the hundreds of questions we’ve received for the Ask the Psychologist service concern the challenges of dealing with those with personality disorders.
As thousands of visitors to this site have discovered, reading about personality disorders and learning Dr Carver’s tips about how to deal with them can be extraordinarily helpful. But what if you could talk with Dr Carver in person, and seek his direct feedback, face to face?
Well, now you can. A new series of workshops running in West Palm Beach, Florida, will bring the work of Dr Joseph M Carver directly to an audience of the people who need him. Flying under the banner “LoserRx: The Prescription for Unhealthy Relationships”, the workshops are scheduled to begin on the 20th of May at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, will run for 2 hours and cost $35 to attend (or $20 for students).
It’s a few too many time zones away for us here, so I won’t be in attendance myself, but I hope some of our readers who happen to be in the vicinity will take advantage of the opportunity to learn more straight from the man whose decades of experience in clinical practice have taught him more than a thing or two about personality disorders.
Just drop by LoserRx.com for full details and booking information.
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3rd May 2008
The seminar looks really good. Hoping to get to one in the NW Ohio area when it comes here.
5th May 2008
I am not happy in my marridge.
5th May 2008
Sandra,
I am so sorry you are going through something in your marriage.
After asking my spouse for several months off and on to communicate with me and being put off, I suggested to him that we both go to counseling, that maybe he would feel better talking to someone else, with or without my presence. When answered with a flat “NO” I went by myself. Very good decision.
Also, skim through this site and use the “Just Ask” feature to get some feedback from Dr. Carver.
5th June 2008
i wonder - where does the label ‘loser’ come from? in my experience, many people who are abusive, controlling or manipulative are deeply unhappy themselves. and if someone is still involved with such a person - do they call them losers? or do they call them losers AFTER they’ve woken up to the fact that this doesn’t work for them and have separated?
5th June 2008
Isabella,
Thanks for that question. To me the word “Loser” is the lightbulb that turns on in the brain when one realizes the person they have been living for and loving is indeed unhappy and unwilling to change.
7th June 2008
Daughter in abusive relationship, has two children by previous marriages. Abuser abused children but just had court last week and she is taking up for abuser. As a parent, we made sure the children were safe but now I need help. I love my daughter and want to help her. How do I do this when she does not recognize the danger she put her children in.
8th June 2008
so the workshop is for people who thought to themselves, “wait a second, this guy/gal in my life is actually a loser, and NOW what do i do?”
9th June 2008
Isabella,
The workshop is for people who’ve understood something was wrong in their relationship and find through research and asking the right people, that there is a set of characteristics which their loved one exhibits that closely allign with the Loser characteristics.
Then comes the “Now What?”