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Gratifying Childhood Losses in Adulthood vs Grieving and Acceptance
By Dr. Jordan | | Loss of Love in Childhood
Early psychoanalytic theorists like Balint and Winnocott, viewed problems with early parental bonding as the origin of emotional difficulties in ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 6. Misrepresentation
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
This is the last post in the series of posts analyzing common love life defenses that interfere with and complicate ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 5. Changing the Person You Love
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
The last two psychological love life defenses I will analyze in this series of posts are, changing your partner and ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 4. Avoiding Love Altogether
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
Avoiding love relationships is the ultimate love life defense because the individual is out of the game, so to speak. ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 3. Habitual Conflict
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
Some psychological love life defenses are used to make a love relationship "tolerable." This is the case with what I ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 2. Keeping Your Emotional Distance in a Love Relationship
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
One of the easiest ways to be in a love relationship when you have unresolved emotional intimacy issues, is to ...
Psychological Love Life Defenses: 1. Denying You Have a Love Life Problem
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Defenses
Ever since I began studying the unhealthy love life from an interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective, I've noticed quite a few people ...
Porn and Emotional Intimacy in Men’s Love Lives
By Dr. Jordan | | Emotional Intimacy
Pornography is a common form of physical sexual release in our digital age. The internet has made it so. As ...
Teaching Audiences How To Work On Their Love Lives
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Presentation
"There is nothing better than a room full of people interested in love!" This is my opening line whenever I'm ...
Repairing Your Disappointing Love Life
By Dr. Jordan | | Love Life Consultation
I created a highly effective psychological method of improving a disappointing love life. I call it the Love Life Consultation. ...
Meeting the Unique Individual: The Theory & Practice of Benjamin Wolstein, Ph.D.
By Dr. Jordan | | Benjamin Wolstein Ph.D., Extraordinary Analyst
I knew the late Dr. Benjamin Wolstein as a teacher, supervisor, psychoanalyst, and as the extraordinary individual he was. This ...
Understanding the Trauma in Sexual Trauma
By Dr. Jordan | | Sexual Trauma
With all the current difficulty figuring out who is and is not responsible for the sexual abuse of minors in ...