Managing your stress begins with identifying the sources of stress in your life. Easier said than done, right? Finding out the real sources of your stress isn’t always easy.
Have you known someone who seems to be more affected by life’s ups and downs than most people? Some psychologists call this the “artistic temperament”; others call it being very sensitive. What is it?
Intellectualization occurs when reasoning and logic are used unconsciously to control internal conflict and emotional anxiety. People who intellectualize talk about feelings in a way
Newport Beach, Orange County– What is projection? What does it mean for someone to project his or her feelings onto someone else? Simply put, projection
The fear of failure is an almost universal human anxiety in the modern world. We all, at one point or another, have worried that our
An Affair of the Heart Sexuality infidelity is pretty cut and dry; one partner steps outside the bounds of the relationship and engages in sexual
Nothing brings dread and helplessness into the heart of a toddler’s parent quite like a tantrum: they seem to happen at the most inopportune moments
Newport Beach, Orange County- With the publication of The Ego and The Id (1932), Freud introduced his structural model of the mind consisting of three
In the 1960’s, psychologists began to notice that there were a group of patients that were not well described by current Freudian, Cognitive Behavioral, or
What is it? When an infant is overstimulated or distressed, it will often fall asleep. Adult versions of the same process can be observed in
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