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Schizoid personality is organized around wanting closeness and fearing being engulfed by it. Jean Jho, PsyD explains the pattern, how it develops, why it is not introversion or avoidant personality, and what helps in therapy.
Masking, social anxiety, and people-pleasing look alike from outside and need different treatment. Lisette Montañez, PsyD on how to tell them apart, and why it matters.
When pain will not fully go away, ACT helps you reclaim your life from it. A Carlsbad psychologist on acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain.
Couples who come from different racial or cultural backgrounds are doing the ordinary work of a relationship plus a second job that mostly goes unacknowledged. The five pressures that make it harder, and what the research says helps.
Humor is one of the friendliest defense mechanisms: it names something painful while keeping you on your feet. Sean Noe, PhD explains why we joke through hard moments, when it helps, and when it keeps people at a distance.
What happens when premenstrual feelings get dismissed as hormones, and what it means when the premenstrual version of you is telling the truth.
People rarely ask me whether EMDR works. They ask what actually happens in the room. Here is the whole arc, from the first conversation to the session where we notice the memory has gone quiet.
The guilt, obligation, and in-between identity many children of immigrants carry. A psychologist on second-generation mental health and how therapy helps.
The PDM-3 gives clinicians a systematic way to describe personality organization, mental functioning, and subjective experience. Jean Jho, PsyD walks through the P, M, and S axes, the Psychodiagnostic Chart, and how the manual fits alongside the DSM-5-TR and ICD-11.
Why you feel more emotional before your period, what those feelings might be telling you, and when to take them seriously. From Naomi Wu, PsyD.
