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It’s Not You It’s Me: The Truth Behind The Excuse

…and parent, can change the dynamic if either one is willing to drop their role and relate as an equal to the other. The wife can not fall apart when the husband sounds parental, and the husband can not reprimand her when she acts helpless. Breaking patterns can be as simple as asking yourself who usually makes the decisions about where to go to dinner or what movie to see, then reversing the roles of active and passive decision maker. Little chan…

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CE Webinar – Love in the Age of Twitter

…s will: Summarize a rational for mindfulness in relationships Describe the role of dopamine in compulsivity List four vehicles of the social media List a working definition of infidelity     Ordering Information: Once payment is received, you will be e-mailed a full video recording of this Webinar along with all presentation materials. Optional CEs (1.5) may be purchased through R. Cassidy Seminars for $15. A link to purchase CE credits will be in…

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Common Psychological Issues University Students Seek to Address: Interview with Dr. Daniel Zamir

…’s a couple of things. There’re also a lot of people dealing with identity development of different sorts. So I think it’s a really interesting age to be talking to people at because, it’s, often times, it’s their first time, especially for the undergrads, the first time maybe living on their own. And there’s a lot of kind of figuring out who they are as people in the world in terms of sexuality and how they live their lives and learning to kind o…

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Becoming Your Real Self: Shedding the Baggage of Your Past

…this negative aspect of our personality as the “anti-self.” Throughout our development, we form adaptations to cope or deal with pain and fears. Yet these adaptations, which initially served as survival mechanisms, later come to limit us. In addition, we often take on the value systems and beliefs of the family and culture we grew up in, or we rebel and form attitudes in opposition to these influences. Either way, it can prove difficult for us to…

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The Higher Education Opportunity Program (H.E.O.P.): Interview with Dr. Sheldon Solomon

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on the Higher Education Opportunity Program (H.E.O.P.): Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on Small But Forceful Agents of Change: Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on Human Destructiveness: Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on the Empathetic Nature of Human Beings: Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on Terror Management Theory: Exclusive Interview

…the face of death. In a lively and candid style, Dr. Solomon discusses the development of Terror Management Theory, the ways in which people form defenses against death anxiety and the concept of life affirming death awareness, arguing that we can “accept the reality of the human condition and parlay that into bringing out the best in us. ” He also addresses the societal effects of death awareness, including the social nature of human beings, the…

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