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Beware: Individual Therapy Can Harm Your Marriage

Looking for help from a therapist? Ask for help from the right kind of pro! Ask for help from the wrong kind of therapy professional and your problems may get worse.

Beware: Thinking Leads to Doing

Sports psychologists teach athletes to visualize making a winning basketball free throw or an effective tennis serve before doing the action. That’s because thinking prepares you for doing. When you think about something, the odds zoom upwards that you will do just what your mind was picturing. The lesson: be careful what you think about!

Borderline Personality Disorder: The Sufferer’s Experience

When a man or woman with borderline personality patterns erupts in strong emotions, loved ones can feel under fire. At the same time, the person with BPD also suffers.

Borderline Personality: Does a BPD Diagnosis Imply Raging?

One aspect of the cluster of traits that lead to a borderline personality diagnosis lies at the core of this disorder. Hint: it's NOT anger.

Boundaries, Privacy and Intimacy Are Cultural Phenomena

When couples start with different cultural backgrounds, their his-way, her-way expectations of intimacy, of what is private and what can be shared, can be confusing.

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, So Here’s a 6-Step How-To

Relationship endings can be difficult. This strategy works whether you are the one who initiates the breakup or the one who receives the bad news.

Bullying Is MoreThan Just a Kids’ Problem

Bullying happens to adults as well as to kids. And whether it happens when you are young or old, bullying can trigger long-term physical health consequences.

Can a 4-Step Self-Help Therapy Technique End Upset Feelings?

Therapists use this technique to help their clients gain insight and feel better. Can it also relieve upset feelings if you use it as a self-help technique?

Are You Falling Out of Love? A Quiz on 10 Warning Signs

"Falling out of love" has become the most common cause of divorce, trumping even affairs and abuse. The good news is that it can be prevented.

Can All Conflicts About Sex Be Resolved? If So, How?

This is the 7th post in a series addressing the question of whether and how all conflicts can be resolved. Sexual differences can be particularly sensitive to discuss.