Articles about Relationships

19 Sure Win Ways to Cope with a Depressed Loved One

A psychoanalytic take on how we try resolve powerfully conflicting emotions towards those who matter most. Contains disguised session material.

This paper examines a specific auxiliary defensive process that enters the post-partum period in a couple. To protect her infant, a mother splits and diverts aggressive i...

Why does love invariably get contaminated by hate and anger, which apparently sets out to destroy the initial intimacies of almost every couple? Why does anger and emotio...

The anatomy of the couple system, and the instinctual drivers that facilitate its emergence.

This paper explores the aims of the death-drive and aggression and its relationship with narcissistic injury in the couple dynamic.

Denial is an unconscious defense mechanism that protects us from realities or emotions that feel too painful to accept. Although it may help us cope temporarily, it can b...

Living abroad is often associated with new opportunities, personal growth, and exciting discoveries. But there is another side of migration that rarely appears in social ...

Losing yourself rarely happens overnight. It unfolds quietly through patterns of self-abandonment disguised as love, loyalty, and care.

This is the second part of my essay, Introduction to Gestalt Therapy, in which I explore polarities as two interdependent parts of the same whole. You can also listen to ...

This article explores why people repeat painful relationship patterns and how psychoanalytic therapy can turn repetition into reflection and change.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong in the broken places. — Ernest Hemingway