Empowerment Tools: Let Go of Harmful Misconceptions
Our conceptualizations of the situations we find ourselves in can not only place us at a disadvantage, but can literally do us harm.
‘Freud’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 2
The following articles are related to ‘Freud’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
Empowerment Tools: Know Who You’re Dealing With
Knowing the kind of person you’re dealing with can give you valuable insight into the types of values they’re likely to hold, their dominant attitudes and beliefs, and their typical modus operandi when it comes to dealing with other people.
Understanding Rationalization: Making Excuses as an Effective Manipulation Tactic
Effective manipulation tactics simultaneously put others on the defensive while also obscuring or denying the malevolent intent of the person using them. Such tactics are particularly effective on neurotic individuals — especially those who always want to think the best of people and who strive hard to understand what would make a person behave in a problematic way.
Understanding the Dysfunctional Tactics of Disturbed Characters
Disordered characters engage in certain behaviors that are so “automatic” that it’s tempting to think that they do them unconsciously. Besides that, on the surface, these behaviors so closely resemble defense mechanisms at times that they can easily be misinterpreted as such.
Understanding “Splitting” as a Psychological Term
Splitting refers to the unconscious failure to integrate aspects of self or others into a unified whole. The age old conscious and deliberate game of “dividing and conquering” is not the same as splitting.
What is a Character Disorder? Part 2: Questions and Comments
Several intriguing comments and questions have been posted in reply to my earlier articles on character disturbance. In this post, I’d like to address some of these and the issues which readers have raised.
Disturbances of Character
Almost all the principles of traditional psychology are based upon the attempts of various theorists to explain a phenomenon rare for its time and almost totally unheard of in modern times. Character disturbance — not neurosis — is the pressing psychological reality of our day and simply can’t be understood or dealt with using traditional paradigms.