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8 Responses to Anger and Hatred

What are your options when someone berates or hates you? How do you protect yourself?

Adult Sibling Alienation: Who Does It and Why

Lawyers, beware! Is an alienating sibling behind your caretaker or inheritance case?

8 Signs of a Toxic Friendship

Good friendships, bad friendships—there are problems ahead if you can't recognize which is which.

8 Ways to Lose Friends by Talking Politics

Republicans and Democrats have become enemies. A political discussion between members of these enemy camps can lead to the ending of friendships and even marriages.

A Big Family: Does Number of Sibs Impact Divorce Risk?

A recent study suggests an interesting relationship between the size of the family a child grows up within and the likelihood that in adulthood that child will end up divorced.

A Marriage Therapist’s View Of Our Dysfunctional Government

Our government leaders' animosities toward each other could be steering us toward national disaster. From a family therapist’s perspective, what they need to change is clear.

A Narcissism and Autism Connection? One Family’s Experience

Does narcissism share commonalities with autism? What are the implications of the observation that the two often co-occur in families?

A New Drug for Serious Depression: The Good News and the Bad

A new study has found that Esketamine works for treating chronic serious depression, but ...

A Novel No-Meds, 5-Pronged Anti-Depression Strategy

Use one, some, or all of these innovative strategies to lift depression's dark cloud. Do it yourself, or ask a therapist to help.

5 Realities About Depression That Make It Highly Contagious

Depression has five main attributes. Each of these five factors adds to making depression a particularly communicable condition.