How Does All of This Affect Couple’s Therapy? Effective couples’ therapy requires each member of the couple to be willing to reflect on his or her beliefs, behaviors, and impact on the other person. It is necessary for people in couples’ therapy to be able to admit where their behavior or their expectations for the… Read More Is Couples’ Therapy Useful When One Partner Is a Narcissist? | Psychology Today
Although narcissism is difficult to treat, progress can be made over time. Even weekly sessions over a shorter term can yield benefits. Patients’ functioning and adaptation to reality can improve through gaining some control over their defenses and by working through past trauma (Masterson, 2004). They can learn to manage their anger, rage, and impulsivity.… Read More Individual and Marital Therapy with Narcissists | Psychology Today
There are a few types of therapy that are particularly useful for dealing with narcissism. Schema therapy, a newer approach to treatment shown to have benefit for treating narcissism, works to help people address trauma of early experiences that may have contributed to narcissistic defenses. Other beneficial therapies include: Gestalt therapymentalization-based therapytransference-focused psychotherapypsychoanalysis
What is the most amused, fun-loving, or silly you felt? What is the most angry, irritated, or annoyed you felt? What is the most ashamed, humiliated, or disgraced you felt? What is the most awe, wonder, or amazement you felt? What is the most contemptuous, scornful, or disdainful you felt? What is the most disgust, distaste, or revulsion you felt? What is the most embarrassed, self-conscious, or blushing you… Read More Positivity Self Test
There are a lot of ways to seek a 3-to-1 positivity ratio in your life. Here are 10 tips on how you can bring more positivity into your life to balance out the negativity bias: 1. Rewrite the story your negativity bias tells you. 2. Look for the opportunity in the difficulty. 3. Broaden your scope. 4. Flip Mother Nature’s… Read More Ways to Apply the 3-to-1 Positivity Ratio
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“Emotional regulation refers to the process by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express their feelings. Emotional regulation can be automatic or controlled, conscious or unconscious, and may have effects at one or more points in the emotion producing process.” (Gross et al. 1998). Join… Read More What is Emotional Regulation?
